If there has been a major shift in poetic theory during the past two centuries, it has been from an emphasis on the external world (around us) to the internal, night world (within us). Thus, for a long time the consciousness of man has been the primary target for a vast number of writers and poets. The great many ways in which these consciousnesses are suggested may be illustrated by a brief consideration of three outstanding examples, in the works of James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Gunnar Ekelöf…. Joyce devoted more than a quarter million words to revealing the complexity involved in the passage of a single, ordinary day, and later, in Finnegans Wake (1939), used as many words to dramatize a single night as experienced by a single character. Eliot, on the other hand, limited his discussion of The Waste Land to just over four hundred...