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... living totality is suggested in a variety of ways : the two fit together like the halves of a sphere ; but it is not a matter of mechanical fitting together : each nature is as though melted and blent into the other ; and the cause of ...
... living totality is suggested in a variety of ways : the two fit together like the halves of a sphere ; but it is not a matter of mechanical fitting together : each nature is as though melted and blent into the other ; and the cause of ...
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... living with the whole self , ' blood , imagination , intellect running together ' , blossoming or dancing in ' joyous energy ' . Life is joy in the soul , but not achieved ( as Plato and the nuns in their differing ways achieve it ) by ...
... living with the whole self , ' blood , imagination , intellect running together ' , blossoming or dancing in ' joyous energy ' . Life is joy in the soul , but not achieved ( as Plato and the nuns in their differing ways achieve it ) by ...
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... living word ) to establish his reality as a living person . The wild , strange , slightly grotesque images are appropriate to the desperate effort to deny the nothingness of death ; and the dramatized intensity of the dead Joe is a ...
... living word ) to establish his reality as a living person . The wild , strange , slightly grotesque images are appropriate to the desperate effort to deny the nothingness of death ; and the dramatized intensity of the dead Joe is a ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
With hym ther was his sone a yong Squier | 7 |
BALLADS | 13 |
Copyright | |
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alliteration beauty bird blank verse blood breath bright charm clouds colour conveyed couplet dance dark dead death delight Donne doth dream earth effect English English Poetry eternal experience expression eyes F. R. Leavis fair fear feeling flowers Gerard Manley Hopkins give grace hath hear heart heaven human imagination James McAuley Jonson Judith Wright Keats king King Lear kiss L. C. Knights leaves light lines lips living look Lord lovers Lycidas Macbeth Milton mind moon nature never night o'er passage passion phrase play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry reality realized rhyme rhythm rich satiric Scholar Gipsy seems sense Shakespeare sing sleep soft song soul sound spirit spring stanza stars strong suggestion surprising sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears Tell thee theme things thou thought tone trees turn verse vision vitality voice VOLPONE wind words youth