The title, "Childe Roland into the Dark Tunnel Came", which forms the last words of the poem, is a line from William Shakespeare's play King Lear (ca. 1607). In the play, Gloucester's son, Edgar, lends credence to his disguise as Tom o' Bedlam by talking nonsense, of which this is a part:
ellauri198.html on line 337: The sunset sets the scene ablaze at that very moment, and a strange sound fills the air. "[I]n a sheet of flame" Roland sees the faces of his dead friends, and hears their names whispered in his ears. Remembering their lives, Roland finds himself surrounded by a "living frame" of old friends. Filled with inspiration, he pulls out his "slug-horn", and blows, shouting "Childe Roland into the dark tunnel came".
ellauri198.html on line 348: For Margaret Atwood, Childe Roland is Browning himself, his quest is to write this poem, and the Dark Tower contains that which Roland/Browning fears most: a damn big tunnel.
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ellauri198.html on line 629: And blew "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came." "Veteraanin iltahuudon" soitin tuolla.
ellauri198.html on line 643: "Childe Roland pimeään tunneliin tuli" on englantilaisen kirjailijan Robert Browningin runo, joka on kirjoitettu 2. tammikuuta 1852 ja julkaistu ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 1855 kokoelmassa nimeltä Miehet ja naiset. Juoni:
ellauri198.html on line 652: Chatterton's usage inspired Robert Browning in his poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, in particular the last stanza in which the hero sees the ghosts of all those who died trying to reach the Dark Tower before him.
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ellauri198.html on line 676: In Anthony Powell's 12-part cycle A Dance to the Music of Time, the eighth novel, The Soldier's Art, takes its title from line 89 of Childe Roland ("Fight first, think afterwards—the soldier's art").
ellauri198.html on line 678: In P.G. Wodehouse's novel The Mating Season: Jeeves uses the phrase 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came' to describe Bertie Wooster's arrival at Deverill Hall. Bertie does not understand the reference.
ellauri198.html on line 680: In P.G. Wodehouse's novel The Code of the Woosters: Jeeves also uses the phrase 'Childe Roland to the dark tower came' to describe Bertie Wooster's arrival, in this case, at Totleigh Towers. Bertie does not understand the reference in this case either.
ellauri198.html on line 684: The scottish "narrative" or fairy tale about Childe Rowland comes from Danish ballads about Rosmer Halfmand from the 1695 work Kaempe Viser. There were three ballads about Rosmer, who was a giant or merman, stealing a girl whose brother later rescues her. In the first, the characters are the children of Lady Hillers of Denmark, and the sister is named Svanè. In the second, the main characters are Roland and Proud Eline lyle. In the third, the hero is Child Aller, son of the king of Iceland. Unlike the English Roland, the hero of the Danish ballads relies on trickery to rescue his sister, and in some versions they have a juicy incestuous relationship to boot.
ellauri198.html on line 710: The series was chiefly inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations. He identifies Clint Eastwood's "Man with No Name" character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, Roland Deschain. King's style of location names in the series, such as Mid-World, and his development of a unique language abstract to our own [clarification needed] (High Speech), are also influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's work. The series is referred to on King's website as his magnum opus.
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ellauri198.html on line 753: Nyt on Harold nähtävästi pudonnut pahan kerran kärryiltä, ilma on sakeanaan savuverhotermejä: proleptic delusion transumptively troping on a trope, retoriikkaa lentää kuin Nietzschen Zarathustrassa. Kumpuilevat pakarat seuraavat Childe Haroldin sanasotaa kädet poskella. (Mitä oli Yeazin Condition of Fire? Se selviää alempana.) Haroldin mielestä Browning imuttaa Chattertonin etanansarvea. Muttei kai 1800-luvun Browning voinut oikeasti lutkuttaa 1700-luvun Chattertonin pipua, ikäeron takia? Ehei, tää on vaan symbolismia.
ellauri198.html on line 757: Eli siis Childe Harold tuumii että Browning ampuu tässä jalkaan Browningia, eli sitä versiota izestään joka jäljitteli Shellyä, ja esittelee izestään nyt parannetun painoxen, joka näpelöi vain sen omaa solmua. Tää on niinkö parodia Shelleyn Ode to West Windistä, tai muistakin sen tunteellisista pläjäyxistä. Sellaseen ei Roope enää rupia. Vittuun Tennysonin Ulysses, Wordsworthin Excursion, Byronin Childe Harold (no sekin), Shelleyn Alaston ja Prinssi Athanasios. Haistakoon paskan samantien myös Yeaz, jolle kummitteli nämä Shelleyn rivit:
ellauri198.html on line 768: Lopuxi Childe Harold sanoo kuin Jussi Jurkka: tarvitaan uusia muotoja, uusia muotoja tarvitaan, ilman sitä ei olisi koko taidetta. Kaikki runoilijat epäonnistuvat, tyhmä yleisö ei ymmärrä mitä runoilija oli tarkoittanut säkeillä, muttei se haittaa, koska runoilija ei tiedä sitä izekään. Ei muuta kuin seuraava kilpailija kehiin.
ellauri198.html on line 786: From Hegel we can move to Mallarmé's Igitur, and an illuminating observation by Paul de Man, even as from Kierkegaard we can go back to Childe Roland and the critical mode I endeavor to develop. Meditating on Igitur, de Man remarks that in Baudelaire and in Mallarmé (under Baudelaire's influence) "ennui" is no longer a personal feeling but comes from the burden of the past. A consciousness comes to know itself as negative and finite. It sees that others know themselves also in this way, and so it transcends the negative and finite present by seeing the universal nature of what it itself is becoming. So, de Man says of Mallarmé's view, comparing it to Hegel's, that "we develop by dominating our natural anxiety and alienation and by transforming it in the awareness and the knowledge of otherness." Jotain tosi narsistista läppää tääkin näyttää olevan.
ellauri198.html on line 794: Roland is not mediated by his precursors; they do not detach him from history so as to free him in the spirit. The Childe's last act of dauntless courage is to will repetition, to accept his place in the company of the ruined. Roland tells us implicitly that the present is not so much negative and finite as it is willed, though this willing is never the work of an individual consciousness acting by itself. It is caught up in a subject-to-subject dialectic, in which the present moment is sacrificed, not to the energies of art, but to the near-solipsist's tragic victory over himself. Roland's negative moment is neither that of renunciation nor of the loss of self in death or error. It is the negativity that is self-knowledge yielding its power to a doomed love of others, in the recognition that those others like Shelley. more grandly had surrendered knowledge and its powers to love, however illusory. Or, mos simply, Childe Roland dies, if be dies, in the magnificence of a belatedness that can accept itself as such. He ends in strengh because his vision has ceased to break and deform the world, and has begun to turn its dangerous strength upon is own defense. Roland is the Kermit modem version of a poet-as-hero, and his sustained courage to weather his own phantasmagoria and emerge into fire is a presage of the continued survival of strong poetry.
ellauri198.html on line 796: Vizi mitä existentialistis-freudilaista viime vuosisadan lopun saarnausta sullottuna markkinointimixin muovipakkauxeen! Olis Roope ollut pöllämystynyt (mutta samalla myös mielissään), jos se olis nähnyt mitä Childe Harold sai tästä rykäyxestä uutetuxi modernismin nimiin vielä vuonna 1974. Mutta seuraavat alluusiot olis voineet yhtä hyvin jäädä tekemättä...
ellauri198.html on line 920: Mitä vittua näillä sepustuxilla muka on Childe Rolandin kanssa tekemistä? Taisi Harold vaan paukutella kriitikkohenxeleitä.
ellauri247.html on line 201: John Bellairs referenced Smollett's works in his Johnny Dixon series, where Professor Roderick Random Childermass reveals that his late father Marcus, an English professor, had named all his sons after characters in Smollett's works: Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphry Clinker, and even "Ferdinand Count Fathom", who usually signed his name F. C. F. Childermass.
ellauri299.html on line 62: Sarja on saanut inspiraationsa pääasiassa Robert Browningin runosta " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ", jonka koko teksti sisällytettiin viimeisen osan liitteeseen. Siitä mulla on vanhastaan paasaus ja suolennoskin albumissa 198.
ellauri341.html on line 520: Keidasteoria, skeidat tai sivistysperstaskut, jonka alun perin ehdotti Rafael Pumpelly vuonna 1908, jonka Vere Gordon Childe suositti vuonna 1928. Tämä teoria väittää, että ilmastossa, joka kuivui Atlantin pohjoisen laman muuttuessa, yhteisöt eristyivät keitaille, joissa heidät pakotettiin sekaantumaan eläimiin, jotka sitten kesytettiin siementen kylvämisen ohella. Tällä teorialla ei kuitenkaan nykyään ole juurikaan kannatusta arkeologien keskuudessa, koska tuon ajanjakson ilmastotiedot osoittavat, että tuolloin alueen ilmasto oli enemmän kosteaa kuin kuivaa.
ellauri341.html on line 522: Robert Braidwoodin ja Alex Schlumpfin (Hiihtoliitto) vuonna 1948 esittämä lentomäkien hypoteesi viittaa siihen, että maatalous alkoi Taurus- ja Zagros-vuorten mäkisellä kyljellä, missä ilmasto ei ollut niin kuiva kuin Childe uskoi ja hedelmällinen maaperä tuki erilaisia kasveja ja eläimiä, mitkä voitaisiin kesyttää ja vastaavasti siementää.
xxx/ellauri010.html on line 905: Childe Harold provided the first example of the Byronic hero. The hero must have a rather high level of intelligence and perception as well as be able to easily adapt to new situations and use cunning to his own gain. It is clear from this description that this hero is well-educated and by extension is rather sophisticated in his style. Aside from the obvious charm and attractiveness that this automatically creates, he struggles with his integrity, being prone to mood swings.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 987: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: "To hold thee
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 408: While en route to New York aboard the steamship Orizaba, he was beaten up after making sexual advances to a male crew member. Just before noon on April 27, 1932, Crane jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. Although he had been drinking heavily and left no suicide note, witnesses believed his intentions to be suicidal, as several reported that he exclaimed "Goodbye, everybody!" before throwing himself overboard. His body was never recovered. A marker in the form of a lifesaver candy on his father´s tombstone at Park Cemetery outside Garrettsville, Portage County, Ohio includes the inscription, "Harold Hart Crane 1899–1932 lost completely at sea". Ai Hart olikin oikeasti Harold, niinkuin bändärinsä Bloom. Childe Haroldeja olisivat halunneet olla kumpikin. But they FAILED!
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