{"title":"\"Her songs are raised like fists\": The Caoineadh Tradition in Paul Muldoon's Lamentations","authors":"Wit Píetrzak","doi":"10.2979/jmodelite.45.4.06","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Throughout Lamentations (2017), a volume of translation from Irish as well as original compositions, Paul Muldoon reworks the poetics of the traditional Irish caoineadh (keen, lament). Ranging from a cry of the grief-stricken woman that nevertheless celebrates life in the case of \"The Lament for Art O'Leary,\" to a self-elegiac song of protest in \"Songs from Typhoid Mary,\" all the way to a keen over the collapse of an individual caught in the throes of a crisis-ridden country, thematized in \"Ólagon,\" Muldoon shows the enduring applicability of the genre to address the oppression of an individual by systemic forces.","PeriodicalId":44453,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF MODERN LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.45.4.06","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Throughout Lamentations (2017), a volume of translation from Irish as well as original compositions, Paul Muldoon reworks the poetics of the traditional Irish caoineadh (keen, lament). Ranging from a cry of the grief-stricken woman that nevertheless celebrates life in the case of "The Lament for Art O'Leary," to a self-elegiac song of protest in "Songs from Typhoid Mary," all the way to a keen over the collapse of an individual caught in the throes of a crisis-ridden country, thematized in "Ólagon," Muldoon shows the enduring applicability of the genre to address the oppression of an individual by systemic forces.