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Journal Article
Ubi Sunt: Allusion and Temporality in Victorian Poetry
2018
Overview
According to Conte, the most demanding form of allusion interrogates the historical values of the reader’s culture, forcing on readers “a consciousness of their immersion in history” (p. 57). Like Charlemagne’s elegiac outcry and Roland’s ceremonial dying, Wiglaf’s lament and the series of communal mourning rites reported by Beowulf’s narrator (pyre, memorial mound, buried treasure, chanting) suggest that words and gestures do not echo emptily but retain a degree of power. [...]the epic reverses the medieval “clerical” contemptus mundi or memento mori lamentations found in poems such as “The Wanderer” (its central figure perhaps another ancestor of Browning’s exiled, wandering Roland), poems that emphasize the transience, even the meaninglessness, of human life.17 In “The Wanderer,” as in “Childe Roland,” what has been lost by time and change cannot be retrieved by elegiac naming, by poetic language, or, indeed, by memory. [...]the absent presence of that ubi sunt trope, with its inherent historical/temporal tensions, underscores, brings into sharper focus, the failure and deracination that afflict Roland. The connection between mourning and inheritance has remained a close one throughout history.” [...]since the time of Moschus’s lament for Bion, “few elegies can be fully read without an appreciation of this frequently combative struggle for inheritance” (English Elegy, p. 37).
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West Virginia University Press,West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia,Johns Hopkins University Press
