The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Siempre pensé que los patos de la piscina de mi tocayo eran una alusión evidente a los que Holden Caulfield echa de menos en el estanque de Central Park en El guardian en el centeno. Ahora este artículo sobre la presencia de Yeats en Los Soprano me dirige a uno de mis poemas favoritos, sobre todo hace quince años, “The Wild Swans at Coole”. Al tiempo que parece una conexión forzada te da una alegría esto de ver a Yeats y Chase de la mano. Por otra parte, el titular es del Boston Globe, donde se preguntan si Tony es un monstruo redimible o no: [SPOILER]
“The Sopranos” has had the time that series TV provides to detail Tony — and almost every other character — reaching for change and backsliding, over and over again. We see them get better and brighter, as Christopher found sobriety, as A.J. found a purpose, as Meadow found medical school. And then we see them all slip, in a pendulum swing of trying and failing and trying that mimics so much of our existence. [...]
Some critics have complained about this flipping and flopping, saying that “The Sopranos” is weakened precisely because the characters don’t clearly change according to a traditional plot arc. But the back and forths are what have distinguished the series; only the more artificially constructed dramas on TV alter characters overnight and build to simple resolutions. When it comes to an epic like “The Sopranos,” messiness is a blessing.
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Finalmente, el New Yorker no dice nada especial, pero extracta una conversacion entre Tony y la Dr. Melfi en el primer episodio que es crucial:
TONY: The morning of the day I got sick, I been thinking. It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came in too late for that, I know. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.
DR. MELFI: Many Americans, I think, feel that way.
TONY: I think about my father. He never reached the heights like me. But in a lotta ways he had it better. He had his people. They had their standards. They had pride. Today, whadda we got?
Dos semanas.