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‘The Locket’ By John Montague depicts memories of the troubled relationship between the poet and his mother after she died. The poem takes the reader through a series of moments, from his birth to his mother’s death.
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The Locket. Background. In a 1988. Irish University Review. interview with Dennis O’Driscoll, Montague says, ‘My. work is riddled with human pain’ and this poem is no exception. Yet, in the same. interview, he claims that ‘the ultimate function of the poet is to praise’. So this poem can.
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Montague is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including A Drunken Sailor (2004), Collected Poems (1995), Time in Armagh (1993), The Dead Kingdom (1984), The Rough Field (1972), and Poisoned Lands (1961). Montague also translated the work of several French poets, including Eugène Guillevic’s 1961 volume Carnac (2000), Claude ...
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This sense of foreboding is echoed in the second poem, ‘The Locket’, in which Hughes introduces and exploits the Jewish/ Nazi binary that underpins the sequence to paint a picture of a mischievous and knowing Wevill, idly playing with a swastika button she seems to have kept inside a locket, providing the basis for the poem’s conclusion ...
Jan 14, 2018 · Montague’s theme of his extremely difficult childhood is extended in his truthful poem ‘The Locket’, which deals with the poet’s troubled relationship with his mother in a surprisingly empathetic way. Montague writes this poem with evocative language without seeking to place blame.
