Abstract

Contemporary Disillusion: A Dialogue

The article presents a conversation between the poet, Marjorie Franck, and the critic, Thomas Deems. They eye each other wanly, these two, in the first tentaoular moments of meeting; but presently their weariness and apathy ate blown away in gusts of conversation. Their conversation deals contemporary disillusion. Marjorie feels sad when she thinks they no longer are the younger generation; that there is now growing up a fresh crop of boys and girls who scorn what they cherished. Deems feels that it is only in the past tense that things are inevitable. The battle has not been lost yet; and the reason is that it has not been fought. He himself don't feel old and tired; on the contrary, he feels much younger than the so-called younger generation.