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“The corona was more beautiful for not being known.Like the play of light and shadow on the walls of Plato’s cave, it presented to posterity , the pure form of,the ideal of all poetry.”

Like the Romantic poets, Ian McEwan responds to moments of radical change by questioning the cost of “progress.” For the Romantics, industrialism threatened nature, memory, and human dignity and for McEwan, climate collapse and technological disruption pose the same dangers.
McEwan elevates imagination, art, and the power of the “lost” as forms of resistance to dehumanization and cultural erasure.