Stephen Dedalus...? ?

Question

"Stephen Dedalus is my name,

Ireland is my nation,

Clongowes is my dwellingplace,

And heaven my expectation"

Answer 1

Yes...

Here's a translation if you are asking because you dont understand, which seems about impossible but hey what the heck.

My name is Stephen Dedalus. I came from Ireland, the town of Clongowees. I want to go to heaven because I'm a good person...

That last line of mine is debatable, and it sounds sort of like a Q+A session from Alcoholics Anonymous...

Answer 2

Stephen Dedalus is the protagonist of Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and an important character in Ulysses... What of him?

Answer 3

Mmmmm.... Joycean.  Portrait of the artist as a young man... not asking a question.  

Answer 4

Nice poem. Am I supposed to automatically know what you're asking-- is it some culture thing that I missed? Darn! Not again!

What's your question, dear? Be more specific?

Answer 5

Joyce... marvelous...