Tadgh | McSweeney (oil paint)
versejunkies Issue 1.1
35 July 2013
Tadgh McSweeney:
“The
image I get from the translation of the poem is
dominated by the image of the arch, mentioned with the desolation An arch can evoke the transition from one era to another etc. I am reminded of and destruction of a war zone all around.
Tennysons’ Ulysses:
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch where through
gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades
for ever and forever when I move
but of course the arch has also been used as a symbol
to express triumph.