Context for James Joyce’s ‘I Hear an Army’
CAIE A Level Poetry Natasha Tabani CAIE A Level Poetry Natasha Tabani

Context for James Joyce’s ‘I Hear an Army’

James Joyce’s poem ‘I Hear an Army’ (1907) is a striking and intense piece that reflects themes of loneliness, betrayal, and existential turmoil. It was published in Chamber Music, a collection of Joyce’s early poetry. Unlike the musical and lyrical quality of many poems in the collection, ‘I Hear an Army’ is more dramatic and foreboding, filled with vivid imagery of a charging army and an overwhelming sense of despair.

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