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- Title
"Who knows if he be dead?": Maud, Signification, and the Madhouse Canto.
- Authors
MCCARTHY, ANNE C.
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the poem "Maud," by Alfred Tennyson, discussing the central interpretation of the work through questions of madness and death. The central quotation of the poem "Who knows if he be dead?" (II.119) is asserted to be the primary interpretive lens and a re-reading of the depictions of madness, living burial, and social significance is provided.
- Subjects
MAUD (Poem : Tennyson); TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; DEATH in literature; MENTAL illness in literature; INTERMENT; 19TH century English poetry; LITERARY criticism; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 1, p221
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0045