The conflicted desires of this character for a girl named Emma lead him to write a villanelle which repeats the lines "Are you not weary of ardent ways" and "Tell no more of enchanted days."  This title character explains his theory of art to his classmate Lynch, stating that the artist must stand mute behind his work, like God himself stands mute 
The conflicted desires of this character for a girl named Emma lead him to write a villanelle which repeats the lines "Are you not weary of ardent ways" and "Tell no more of enchanted days."  This title character explains his theory of art to his classmate Lynch, stating that the artist must stand mute behind his work, like God himself stands mute behind creation "paring his nails." His friend Cranly tries to dissuade the protagonist from leaving for Paris but fails, and the novel ends with fragments from this character's journal, in which he states that he desire "to forge in the smithy of [his] soul the uncreated conscience of his race." FTP who is this fictional character whose return to Ireland is recounted in Ulysses, the protagonist of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
The conflicted desires of this character for a girl named Emma lead him to write a villanelle which repeats the lines "
{Stephen Dedalus}