11/6/2022 0 Comments Benjamin black glass themeIt operates almost like a magical incantation by repetitions of words that tend to musical rather than cognitive sense – the repetitions of the word ‘falling’ and ‘softly’ tending to smother the hostility in terms like ‘dark mutinous’, ‘crooked’, ‘spears’ and barren’ and the sense of Armageddon in the phrase, ‘their last end’. This passage attempts to use snow and the surface cover it provides to connect and generalise Irish history and geography. (my italics) Quotation taken from: Snow in Phoenix Park. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. Joyce takes a phrase (the one referenced by Banville), ostensibly from newspaper story on the weather in Ireland, to spin a means of generalising the importance of loss, mortality and the pain of resistance to this general end of all lives in the definition of love out of the idea and image of falling snow. And it is worth looking at how this achieved by Joyce by looking at a passage that is semi-ironically referenced in Banville’s Snow. The classic statement of that position of the universality of great literature in Irish writing is James Joyce’s The Dead. It is tacit precisely because only high status writing make grandiose claims about its universality and generalisability. This is a novel like no other by John Banville, in that it’s status vis-à-vis the role and status of the writer and writing has become a tacit theme. Reflecting on John Banville’s ‘ Snow’ London, Faber. We must seem like the characters in one of those novels about mad people in country houses.” She laughed again, …’.
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