Matthew Arnold’s “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”: Instability of Religious Selfhood and Boundary of Action
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This article examines how Matthew Arnold’s “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” derails the traditional form of elegy by portraying thematic concerns such as the crisis of religious identity and the difficulty to take an action for its solution. “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” focuses on the speaker’s pilgrimage to a seclusive residence of the monastery and conveys the writer’s considerations of the prevalent problem of his age. Whereas traditional elegies chiefly deal with the dead as their main subject, Arnoldian elegy accentuates the loss of both faith and sentiment of grief which, he believes, is necessary for recognizing the serious condition of the era itself. In addition, the author accentuates the protagonist’s struggle with solving matters like despair and a sense of ennui. The article unfurls the surrounding landscape of the monastery where the speaker articulates his internal bereavement and simultaneous recognition of its apparent irresolvable boundary.
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This article examines how Matthew Arnold’s “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” derails the traditional form of elegy by portraying thematic concerns such as the crisis of religious identity and the difficulty to take an action for its solution. “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” focuses on the speaker’s pilgrimage to a seclusive residence of the monastery and conveys the writer’s considerations of the prevalent problem of his age. Whereas traditional elegies chiefly deal with the dead as their main subject, Arnoldian elegy accentuates the loss of both faith and sentiment of grief which, he believes, is necessary for recognizing the serious condition of the era itself. In addition, the author accentuates the protagonist’s struggle with solving matters like despair and a sense of ennui. The article unfurls the surrounding landscape of the monastery where the speaker articulates his internal bereavement and simultaneous recognition of its apparent irresolvable boundary.
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