Mythical Elements in A.D.Hope’s “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” and “Prometheus Unbound”- A Reading
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Alec Derwent Hope, an Australian poet and critic is a contemporary of Judith Wright. His poems are enriched with mythical elements. To him, the use of myth in poems no way subdues the theme or the essence of the poem. Myth plays a major role in literature. In the poem “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” Hope shows the wrong usage of music. Music is meant for pleasure and enjoyment, but hunters in this poem use it as a weapon to hunt the ‘Kastura” deer, which is becoming extinct. The hunters go to the deep jungle, where Assam and Tibet meet; to hunt the Kastura deer for their musk pods.
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G. Dhali
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