Contemporary Poetry: A Retrospective From the "Quarterly Review of Literature" 2015
DOI: 10.1515/9781400871728-025
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“…R andall Jarrell's poem "Eighth Air Force," like many of his early poems, deals with his experience in the U.S. Air Force. 1 This poem contains a poetic version of the classical liar paradox of the form proposed by Eubulides in the fourth century BCE, "I am now lying," as a device to capture a certain dimension of the inherent duplicity of human life. 2 The paradox results because Eubulides's self-referential statement has the consequence that if it is true then it is false and if it is false then it is true.…”
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“…R andall Jarrell's poem "Eighth Air Force," like many of his early poems, deals with his experience in the U.S. Air Force. 1 This poem contains a poetic version of the classical liar paradox of the form proposed by Eubulides in the fourth century BCE, "I am now lying," as a device to capture a certain dimension of the inherent duplicity of human life. 2 The paradox results because Eubulides's self-referential statement has the consequence that if it is true then it is false and if it is false then it is true.…”
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