A Commentary on The Anathemata of David JonesThe poem is a symbolic, dramatic anatomy of historical western culture. Composed of eight sections, it narrates the thought processes of one cambrophile (lover of all things Welsh) English Catholic at Mass over the span of roughly seven seconds. |
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Page 40
... opening poem of the S.L. ) which will inevitably come with technological supremacy . We should not leave this Ilian passage without noting two Vergilian parallels . The first is the obvious reference , annotated by D. , to the bay ...
... opening poem of the S.L. ) which will inevitably come with technological supremacy . We should not leave this Ilian passage without noting two Vergilian parallels . The first is the obvious reference , annotated by D. , to the bay ...
Page 84
... opening of the poem . We now see how well the key fits , which we are given on p.45 , in the form of the endless circular story of our childhood , ' It was a dark and stormy night . . .. This will have become even more apparent by the ...
... opening of the poem . We now see how well the key fits , which we are given on p.45 , in the form of the endless circular story of our childhood , ' It was a dark and stormy night . . .. This will have become even more apparent by the ...
Page 154
... opening Dies Irae . ( But for the wood , see Rahner , p.65 . ) dash my buttons : this common old - fashioned expression , used in real life by the mast - maker , occurs more than once in a greatly loved book , Borrow's The Romany Rye ...
... opening Dies Irae . ( But for the wood , see Rahner , p.65 . ) dash my buttons : this common old - fashioned expression , used in real life by the mast - maker , occurs more than once in a greatly loved book , Borrow's The Romany Rye ...
Common terms and phrases
adjective Aeneas Aeneid allusion Anathemata Aphrodite artefacture Britain British called Calvary Capel-y-ffin Celtic Christ Christian church cosmocrats Cronos cross culture D.'s note death Demeter Dies Irae divine dolorous stroke Eleusis Epoch and Artist Eucharist focsle Geoffrey of Monmouth Greek Gwenhwyfar Helen Hog-eye Homeric Keel Kensington Mass king Lady land Last Supper later Latin legend liturgy London Mabinogion Manawydan Mary mast master meaning metaphor Middle-Sea and Lear-Sea mind mother mystery myth Odysseus paragraph Parenthesis passage Persephone phrase poem poet poet's pomoerium priest quoted reader reference reminder Rite and Fore-time ritual river rock Roman Rome runes sacrament sacrifice sail says sense ship Sibyl skipper Sleeping Lord speaking Stauros stone Stow suggested symbol Telphousa Terramara theme thing timber tion tree Triptolemus Troy upper room Vergil vessel voyage wattled Welsh wind word writes