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...ODE TO THE SCITUATE SEA MONSTER
...preserved in Max Hayward's excellent translation, she captures an almost physical sense of the way people shifted their views and the very foundations of their personalities in order to survive. For Mandelstam, change was impossible. He once tried to keep off the Bolshevik wolves by writing an ode to Stalin. Try as he might, it was an impossible task. Yet the conflict and the tension launched him on a new cycle of real poems...
...fully deciphered, and may never have come wholly clear to Runge himself. Evidently he was combining several systems of mythChristian, Judaic, classicalin one encyclopedic statement. But for all its obscurities, its transcendent optimism blazes forth: this is the closest contemporary equivalent to Beethoven's Ode...
Concerts at the United Nations often include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which ends with the choral affirmation of Schiller's Ode to Joy: "All mankind shall be brothers . . ." The U.N. was founded 25 years ago on that dream. Disillusionment over its failure to achieve this goal has become a permanent feeling, like a chronic toothache...
...friends will. And on Nov. 28, 1965, Eliot's heart stops for 3½ minutes during an operation for floating retina. Many medical details and a hint of geriatrics, though, do not add up to a philosophical treatment of death. In the end, Last Things is less an ode to mortality than a lip reading through the obituary column...