Strangers and Pilgrims: An Essay on the Metaphor of Journey |
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... character- istic is not only evident in the obvious fact that they are the destroyers of Troy ; it is also apparent in the mode they employ to bring about this destruction . Everywhere Aeneas insists on their treachery and guile , their ...
... character- istic is not only evident in the obvious fact that they are the destroyers of Troy ; it is also apparent in the mode they employ to bring about this destruction . Everywhere Aeneas insists on their treachery and guile , their ...
Page 211
... character . Demon and Nemesis were the pilots with whom he travelled across Europe , and thus he in- vested the journey with tragic and superhuman grandeur , an epic that would dwarf and defeat those who had humiliated him . Mario Praz ...
... character . Demon and Nemesis were the pilots with whom he travelled across Europe , and thus he in- vested the journey with tragic and superhuman grandeur , an epic that would dwarf and defeat those who had humiliated him . Mario Praz ...
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... character would have deepened as he drew to the close ; for the outline which I once meant to fill up for him was , with some exceptions , the sketch of a modern Timon , perhaps a poetical Zeluco.3 This was written in 1813 , and the ...
... character would have deepened as he drew to the close ; for the outline which I once meant to fill up for him was , with some exceptions , the sketch of a modern Timon , perhaps a poetical Zeluco.3 This was written in 1813 , and the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
Copyright | |
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actual Aeneid allegory ancient appears Arnold aspect beauty becomes beginning Book Byron Canto character Childe claim close concerned contrast course critics death deep early elements emerges emotional episode exile existence experience exploration eyes fact fate feeling felt figure final force freedom function hand heart hero Homeric human idea imagination important impulses interesting Italy journey kind land landscape later light lines living Mariner Mariner's meaning metaphor mind moral move myth nature object observe Odysseus once passage pattern peace poem poet poet's poetic poetry present quest relation religious represents ritual scene Scholar seems seen sense significant society soul spiritual stands stanzas story structure suggests symbolic takes things thou thought traditional tree true truth turn Ulysses vision voyage wanderer Wordsworth