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- Title: Apeneck Sweeney's Penitential Path (Critical Essay)
- Author : Yeats Eliot Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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Sweeney is a baffling person. He runs in and out poems like a naughty boy, scarcely offers an explanation of his conduct, and generally confounds" critics by his bad manners and rude behaviour.--T. H. Thompson (161) Names are critically important in the poetry of T. S. Eliot. The brilliant choice of J. Alfred Prufrock characterizes the protagonist of Eliot's great early poem in a single indelible stroke, while names such as Grishkin, Mr. Apollinax, and Rachel nee Rabinovitch are likewise famously memorable. Many readers have found similarly suggestive the name of Sweeney, the main character in three of the quatrain poems and the Sweeney Agonistes fragments as well as a bit player in The Waste Land, but there has been little consensus as to what the name might actually suggest. Some have heard in it a resemblance to swine, others to swans. (1) Most agree that the name denotes an Irishman, but what it connotes appears to range widely, from a stereotypically drunken Irish-Catholic brute to an appealingly unsophisticated "natural man." Confusion and conflict among the various interpretations of the Sweeney poems are evident in the essays collected in Kinley Roby's Critical Essays on T. S. Eliot: The Sweeney Motif, the most comprehensive treatment of the character to date.