Merlin; A Poem
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By Edwin Arlington Robinson
28 Jan, 2020
Merlin is a dramatic narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, written in 1917. The poem is entirely modern in its spirit and treatment. In Robinson's poem, King Arthur and his knights are not romantic heroes, as other poets have made them, not �
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Merlin is a dramatic narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, written in 1917. The poem is entirely modern in its spirit and treatment. In Robinson's poem, King Arthur and his knights are not romantic heroes, as other poets have made them, not “our conception of what knighthood should be”; they are a modern poet's conception of what leaders of men always and universally are — king, warrior, lover, fool; Arthur, Gawaine, Lancelot, Dagonet. Nor is Robinson's Merlin like Tennyson's — a magician in his dotage falling a victim to the wiles of a false woman. He is a prophet whose “memories go forward”; he is a man “Who saw himself, A sight no other man has ever seen,” and he follows Vivian, “a woman who is worth a grave,” because Fate wills it so. Less
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- 2010-08-04
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