Alfred de Vigny | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis & critique of Alfred de Vigny.

Alfred de Vigny | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis & critique of Alfred de Vigny.
This section contains 2,614 words
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SOURCE: "The Setting in Vigny's 'La Mort du Loup,'" in Language Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1-2, Winter-Spring, 1991, pp. 104-14.

In the following essay, McGoldrick shows how Vigny uses contrasting effects to construct the setting of "La Mort du Loup" so it contributes to the plot.

Vigny's poem "La Mort du Loup" recounts the tracking-down of a wolf, its mate, and two cubs, by a band of hunters with a pack of dogs. The wolf is pursued, easily cornered and caught off guard, and attacked by one of the dogs. It seizes the dog, and only releases it from the clutch of its jaws after the animal lies dead. Then, mortally wounded by knife and bullet wounds, it too lies down to die. In the poem's second and third sections, Vigny uses the wolf's death to spell out his message of stoic resignation and submission to fate exemplified by...

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