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Matt Roth [responding to: Gary Lipon [ to Jansy's "Why a pastiche of Hazel's tragedy, along with other sad tales? Why Hazel, in particular..."] I'm honestly quite surprised, if I understand you correctly, that you don't see allusions to Hazel's story in this sequence? JM: No! At least, not from this sequence...] I'm firmly with Gary on this one. As I think I said before, it is unimaginable to think that Shade could concoct a young dead woman--who died on a "wild march night"--standing by the edge of a pond, without having Hazel in mind. Recall that Hazel died by drowning, probably in March, on a "night of blow," and later on in Canto Three, while clearly thinking of Hazel's death, Shade writes, "It is the wild / March wind. It is the father with his child." My Mathilda association is pretty speculative, while this connection, right there in the text, seems ironclad to me.
JM: I almost gave up my retort, humbled by my blindness about anything as obvious, like both Lipon and Roth find it to be, in Shade's lines related to Hazel.
A "wild March wind" seems to be the only real link to the night when Hazel was swamped. And not even this one convinces me. Nor the parent's worrying about a twenty-three year old daughter (23 if I remember former calculations) out after midnight on her first (?) blind-date, lest their protectiveness is revelatory of Hazel's mental disturbances.
Lipon's analogies* remain a puzzle. Pond= swamp?
A pond's reflective surface "full of a dreamy sky"...indicate a wild March windy night? I simply don't get it.
Hazel as Shade's dream-wife? Oh, please...
What has been written about Hazel as "Mother Time" and the watchman by the lake described as "Father Time"?
In Zembla we find Nabokov's Pale Fire and the Romantic Movement (with special reference to the Brocken, Scott and Goethe) by Gerard de Vries
when he quotes: "It is only Lochanhead...must think it....queer/ To stop without a farmhouse near/ Between the woods and frozen lake/ The darkest evening of the year." and he adds that these are "lines borrowed from the second stanza of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening," a poem alluded to in Pale Fire."
This reference complicates matters even further: Why use Frost's lines on "the darkest evening of the year," in relation to Hazel's stop at Lochanhead? Why skip Shade's disbelief in IPH's revelations and try to evaluate his own non-Oedipic fantasies for what's worth?
* -He meets his wives; both loved, both loving, both
Jealous of one another. [1:Shade, Sybil & Hazel]
Fondling a changeless child, the flax-haired wife
Grieves on the brink of a remembered pond
Full of a dreamy sky. [2:Sybil & Hazel, pond=swamp]
Know of the head-on crash which on a wild
March night killed both the mother and the child?
[5:Pete Dean, Sybil and Hazel]
.....................................
Know of the head-on crash which on a wild
March night killed both the mother and the child?
[5:Pete Dean, Sybil and Hazel]
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JM: I almost gave up my retort, humbled by my blindness about anything as obvious, like both Lipon and Roth find it to be, in Shade's lines related to Hazel.
A "wild March wind" seems to be the only real link to the night when Hazel was swamped. And not even this one convinces me. Nor the parent's worrying about a twenty-three year old daughter (23 if I remember former calculations) out after midnight on her first (?) blind-date, lest their protectiveness is revelatory of Hazel's mental disturbances.
Lipon's analogies* remain a puzzle. Pond= swamp?
A pond's reflective surface "full of a dreamy sky"...indicate a wild March windy night? I simply don't get it.
Hazel as Shade's dream-wife? Oh, please...
What has been written about Hazel as "Mother Time" and the watchman by the lake described as "Father Time"?
In Zembla we find Nabokov's Pale Fire and the Romantic Movement (with special reference to the Brocken, Scott and Goethe) by Gerard de Vries
when he quotes: "It is only Lochanhead...must think it....queer/ To stop without a farmhouse near/ Between the woods and frozen lake/ The darkest evening of the year." and he adds that these are "lines borrowed from the second stanza of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening," a poem alluded to in Pale Fire."
This reference complicates matters even further: Why use Frost's lines on "the darkest evening of the year," in relation to Hazel's stop at Lochanhead? Why skip Shade's disbelief in IPH's revelations and try to evaluate his own non-Oedipic fantasies for what's worth?
* -He meets his wives; both loved, both loving, both
Jealous of one another. [1:Shade, Sybil & Hazel]
Fondling a changeless child, the flax-haired wife
Grieves on the brink of a remembered pond
Full of a dreamy sky. [2:Sybil & Hazel, pond=swamp]
Know of the head-on crash which on a wild
March night killed both the mother and the child?
[5:Pete Dean, Sybil and Hazel]
.....................................
Know of the head-on crash which on a wild
March night killed both the mother and the child?
[5:Pete Dean, Sybil and Hazel]
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