Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”

The essay explores Paul Muldoon’s elegy for the fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson with a view to showing that “The Triumph” seeks to evoke a ground where political, cultural and religious polarities are destabilized. As the various intertextual allusions in the poem are traced, it is argued t...

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Autor principal:	Wit Pietrzak
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Publicado:	Lodz University Press 2021
Materias:	paul muldoon ciaran carson elegy contemporary irish poetry Literature (General) PN1-6790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a21d2bc7ffa244e388e66d5051ff91052021-12-01T06:51:57ZShibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”2083-29312084-574X10.18778/2083-2931.11.04https://doaj.org/article/a21d2bc7ffa244e388e66d5051ff91052021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/11255https://doaj.org/toc/2083-2931https://doaj.org/toc/2084-574XThe essay explores Paul Muldoon’s elegy for the fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson with a view to showing that “The Triumph” seeks to evoke a ground where political, cultural and religious polarities are destabilized. As the various intertextual allusions in the poem are traced, it is argued that Muldoon seeks to revise the notion of the Irish shibboleths that, as the poem puts it, “are meant to trip you up.” In lieu of this linguistic and political slipperiness, “The Triumph” situates Carson’s protean invocations of Belfast and traditional Irish music as the new shibboleths of collectivity.Wit PietrzakLodz University Pressarticlepaul muldoonciaran carsonelegycontemporary irish poetryLiterature (General)PN1-6790ENText Matters, Iss 11, Pp 51-63 (2021)
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description	The essay explores Paul Muldoon’s elegy for the fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson with a view to showing that “The Triumph” seeks to evoke a ground where political, cultural and religious polarities are destabilized. As the various intertextual allusions in the poem are traced, it is argued that Muldoon seeks to revise the notion of the Irish shibboleths that, as the poem puts it, “are meant to trip you up.” In lieu of this linguistic and political slipperiness, “The Triumph” situates Carson’s protean invocations of Belfast and traditional Irish music as the new shibboleths of collectivity.
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Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”

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