Premium Content Making the Connection: Symbolist Poetry and the Theatre of the Absurd
By Laura van der Berg - March 23, 2003
GUILDENSTERN: All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. ~ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard,(Pg. 39)
Paul Valery's Asides is a poem about the loss of faith, desire, knowledge, communication, and…
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