Benét's "John Brown's Body"--For Study
1969; National Council of Teachers of English; Volume: 58; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/812597
ISSN2161-8895
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval European Literature and History
Resumoschools and colleges. If taught at all, it is presented as a partial success, a poem celebrating common man, but in which all representatives of common man appear as superficial objects, as if they were, as Ben6t states, mere ironfilings moving under grippings of that blinded force, that of thunderstone, the ash-and-cinder star (p. 78).1 However, Benet's concern was far greater; he attempted to discuss effect of machine age upon a human society which had upheld romantic ideals of tradition as a social structure for two
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