FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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a poem by Yeats
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a popular Irish ballad
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an ancient epic
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a poem by Eliot
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Detailed explanation-1: -Famously, the title of the book is a portmanteau word. At one level, it refers to an Irish pub song called “Finnegan’s Wake” (or “The Ballad of Tim Finnegan"), about the funeral of a man named Finnegan who fell off a ladder. It can also mean “in the wake of Finnegan, ” that is, everything post-Finnegan.
Detailed explanation-2: -The spelling of ‘quark, ’ an elementary particle of matter smaller than a proton or neutron, comes from Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’. According to his own account he was in the habit of using names like “squeak” and “squork” for peculiar objects, and “quork” (rhyming with pork) came out at the time.
Detailed explanation-3: -About the Author James Joyce (1882-1941) was born in Dublin, the oldest of ten children in a family that struggled with poverty. His works include Finnegans Wake, Dubliners, and the modern epic Ulysses.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to the legend, Tim Finnegan is a construction worker in Dublin. When he dies, his wife Annie lays out his body at his wake. She lays his body on a food table so the guests can eat his corpse, but the corpse vanishes before he can be eaten.