Friday, January 3, 2003

I Hear An Army Charging Upon The Land Comments

Rating: 3.8

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.
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James Joyce
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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 June 2024

He masterfully captures the raw vulnerability of the human heart through his powerful poetry Truly breathtaking! TOP Score from me. This is a Masterpiece.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 17 April 2024

the loss of a loved one ('my love, why have you left me alone') ? Betrayal is a theme in many of Joyce's writings, and Joyce could be expressing his fear of being abandoned by his wife for another lover. Or is the nightmare a political prophecy of World War I?

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Sylvia Frances Chan 17 April 2024

Magnificent poem of James Joyce. the poet is jarred awake by a nightmare in which an army of black-clad charioteers rides full-tilt out of the sea towards him. He feels threatened. Is this a nightmare of personal calamity, provoked by anxiety over

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Sylvia Frances Chan 17 April 2024

in this case, may be civilization in general (poets, after all, are in love with the world) which has abandoned its sanity for the sake of war.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 17 April 2024

NUMBER ONE: In this poem, Joyce, as the poet-dreamer, feels terrified by the war. When he cries out, 'My love... why have you left me/ alone? ' the 'love' he addresses,

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2024

SIX: he masterfully captures the raw vulnerability of the human heart through his powerful poetry Truly breathtaking!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2024

FIVE: Through vivid and surreal imagery, the poet conveys the overwhelming impact of lost love and the lingering echoes of heartache. The poem's evocative language and dreamlike quality invite readers to explore the depths of emotional turmoil and the haunting persistence of lost love.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2024

FOUR: The central theme of the poem revolves around the pain of heartbreak, capturing the intensity of emotional suffering and the haunting persistence of memories.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2024

THREE: This army symbolizes a nightmarish onslaught of negative and painful emotions brought on by heartbreak. The thundering horses, arrogant charioteers, and whirling laughter all contribute to the sense of turmoil and despair.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2024

TWO: It describes an invasion by a frightening army of ghoulish, green-haired soldiers riding in horse-drawn chariots. The imagery is vivid and unsettling. However, as the poem unfolds, it becomes clear that the speaker is dreaming.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 February 2024

ONE: James Joyce, one of my most favourite writers, let me write long and much about his poem, which was chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as the Modern Poem Of The Day. I love it very very much! My Congratulations to the closest family of the poet.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 16 February 2023

LAST: as it becomes clear that what the reader is really witnessing is a picture of psychological distress. The reader learns that that this army is, in fact, the product of a terrible nightmare; the sleeping speaker 'moan[s]'.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 16 February 2023

In short, they're terrifyingly bizarre, like creatures sent from some mythological world sent to attack the speaker. The poem links this horror with the speaker's mental state

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Sylvia Frances Chan 16 February 2023

CONTINUED: 'foam' swirling about their horses' knees, their green—yes, green! —hair flowing in the wind. They scream 'their battle-name' (or battle cry) , conveying their bloodlust.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 16 February 2023

The speaker uses language and imagery that makes the soldiers seem inhuman, even supernatural (and thus all the more disconcerting) . They rise out of the sea,

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Castellenas John 03 May 2019

One of the great poems. Thank you James Joyce.

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 21 November 2014

James Joyce a great novelist consciousness of flow is great value in his work- Autobiography of young man and Ullysis - freedom is in his blood, onomatopoeic words usage..sound base composition

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 21 November 2014

This is not only a poem but also a great work of freedom of thought in which james joyce stood for individual freedom always makes his opinion against war the real war that destructs the humanlife.

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Babatunde Aremu 21 November 2014

A great poem. The whole world has been under jackboots leaving behind 'sorrows and tears' (a la Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the great Nigerian musician)

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Leslie Sharp 31 October 2014

War a ugly thing being it is of the earthly or of the soul. Hatred core of all evil.

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