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- W2515511624 abstract "John Hewitťs early 1970s poem, 'Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto' is a poem about the politics of memory and memorialising, and an embodiment of them; it also has, or courts, the quality of being forgettable, even as it wants to make itself heard. It is, therefore, a poem of paradox, both iconic and iconoclastic, putting in mind what it strives to avoid, setting itself up for failure. In these opening lines, 'Remember' is a 'loaded' word in the sense of being freighted, burdened with historical and political pressures (through exhortations to remember 1690, 1798, 1916) in a way which needs no further explication here. To remember the dead makes no difference to the dead; how or whether they are remembered may make all the difference to the living. To remember, in one definition, is to recall the memory of a person or event with feeling or intention. So the word can be, as Hewitt knows, a dangerous one loaded, like a gun perhaps, and something that may discharge itself in violence. Yet it's loaded in another way too, since remembering carries within it, exists only on the basis of, forgetting. To remember is 'not to forget'; to forget is 'to lose remembrance of. As Derek Mahon puts it in the early poem 'Spring in Belfast': 'Once more, as before, I remember not to forget.' Remembering and forgetting are inseparable and they are often both necessary. If the twentieth century was a century obsessed with remembrance in a way no other has been, it is also the case, as Adrian Forty notes, that 'forgetting has, in a manner of speaking, been the problem of the twentieth century. ... In post-war Europe, the ability to forget has been put to the most severe test. The relative stability of Western Europe since 1945 has in part been due to a colossal act of collective, consensual forgetting...'.2 The need to remember, and the need to forget, are held in tension in politics, in society, in the individual too. They're held in particular" @default.
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- W2515511624 title "POETRY AND FORGETTING! ON HEWITT^ NEITHER AN ELEGY NOR" @default.
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