"Portrait of the Poet As Landscape"

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The paper explains how A.M. Klien's title "Portrait of the Poet As Landscape" is suggestive of the loss of self and alienation from this world of falseness and that it reflects on the life of the poet. The paper then portrays the poem's apt images of bitter social critique, sardonic irony, self-flagellation and some good humor.

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"The title does not use an article. The word landscape is left undefined, so where and who is the poet? He has blended into a landscape bereft of himself like a child blundering through a strange country, never knowing why. The title is an effacement, and the poem commences and continues as such with apt images of bitter social critique, sardonic irony, self-flagellation, some good humor, but in the end a nihilistic plunge into the depths he deprecates."

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