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Saturday, 16 April 2011

New love poems for him from heart short

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The poems were initially rejected for publication by Ezra Pound. Although paid scant attention on its initial publication, this slender volume (the collection contains fewer than 1000 words in total) has proven surprisingly durable, and a number of its poems (particularly "Tilly", "A flower given to my daughter", "On the beach at Fontana", and "Bahnhofstrasse") continue to appear in anthologies to this day.

"Pomes Penyeach" contains a number of Joycean neologisms ("rosefrail", "moongrey" and "sindark", for example) created by melding two words into a new compound. The word "love" appears thirteen times in this collection of thirteen short poems (and the word "heart" appears almost as frequently) in a variety of contexts. Sometimes romantic love is intended, in tones that vary from sentimental or nostalgic ("O sighing grasses,/Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!") to scathing ("They mouth love's language. Gnash/ The thirteen teeth/ Your lean jaws grin with"). Yet at its best Joyce's poetry achieves, like his prose, a sense of vitality and loving compassion. ("From whining wind and colder/ Grey sea I wrap him warm/ And touch his trembling fineboned shoulder/ And boyish arm. // Around us fear, descending/ Darkness of fear above/ And in my heart how deep unending/ Ache of love!")

"The Sisters" (1904) � "Eveline" (1904) � "After the Race" (1904) � "An Encounter" (1905) � "Araby" (1905) � "The Boarding House" (1905) � "Counterparts" (1905) � "Clay" (1905) � "A Painful Case" (1905) � "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" (1905) � "A Mother" (1905) � "Two Gallants" (1906) � "A Little Cloud" (1906) � "Grace" (1906) � "The Dead" (1907)