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His work was influenced by a wide range of literary and intellectual traditions, including Irish mythology, Catholic theology, and European philosophy. A Flower Given to My Daughter. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. A Prayer.
Strings in the earth and air. ‘Strings in the earth and air’ by James Joyce is a romantic poem that imagines love as a youth playing sweetly enchanting music. This poem by James Joyce is the first one found within his 1907 collection 'Chamber Music.'.
One of the most influential and innovative writers of the 20th century, James Joyce was the author of the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). His collections of poetry include Chamber Music (1907) and Pomes Penyeach (1927).
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce. 1882 –. 1941. Molly Bloom's closing soliloquy. ...and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him ...
1882 –. 1941. I hear an army charging upon the land, . And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: . Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, . Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. . They cry unto the night their battle-name: . I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.
‘I Hear An Army’ is a lyrical poem that contains some vocabulary of disdain. The tone of the poem shifts with the passing of the stanzas, like the lyrical voice experiments with a martial vision. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAB. ‘I Hear An Army’ captures the feeling of lost love through intense imagery and the use of musical patterns.
James Joyce’s ‘Be Not Sad‘ is a short poem in which the narrator attempts to comfort his lover and pleads with them to ignore the bad things that are being said about them. The poem was likely inspired by Joyce’s controversial relationship with Nora Barnacle, with whom he left Ireland for Europe.
