The protagonist of this novel finds relief from his grieving in Shelley's poem "To the Moon," and he himself writes a villanelle asking, "Are you not weary of your ardent ways, / Lure of the fallen seraphim?" Heron, one of the protagonist's schoolmates, tries to get him to admit that Lord Byron was no good, and an early incident involves the protagonist's broken glasses, which Father Dolan thinks to be a scheme to avoid schoolwork. At another point, the protagonist confe
The protagonist of this novel finds relief from his grieving in Shelley's poem "To the Moon," and he himself writes a villanelle asking, "Are you not weary of your ardent ways, / Lure of the fallen seraphim?" Heron, one of the protagonist's schoolmates, tries to get him to admit that Lord Byron was no good, and an early incident involves the protagonist's broken glasses, which Father Dolan thinks to be a scheme to avoid schoolwork. At another point, the protagonist confesses to sexual activity after hearing Father Arnall's sermon about hell. Beginning with the story of "a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo," this is, for 10 points, what novel about Stephen Dedalus by James Joyce?
The protagonist of this novel finds relief from his grieving in Shelley's poem "To the Moon," and he himself writes a villanelle asking, "Are you not weary of your ardent ways, / Lure of the fallen seraphim?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man