Blake and Modern Literature

Larrissy, Edward

doi:10.1057/9780230627444

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The Genesis Of Ginsberg's "Lion"1

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“…Critics have duly proposed insightful interpretations of what Ginsberg's lion might symbolize, from the most obvious, that is a natural stand-in for Blake's Tyger, 20 to Jane Hirshfield's subtler conclusion that it is "more multidimensional," an "irrefutable" presence that "we can't own or control." 21 Hirshfield doesn't recognize the hermeneutic trap in the poem, however, which enables her to find a "path to resolution" that, I would argue, goes against the text's resistance to such analysis (11).…”

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