Strangers and Pilgrims: An Essay on the Metaphor of Journey |
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... emotional satisfaction . Yet no one may seriously claim that Roman law did not embody one of the most exalted and worthwhile ideals the world has known , nor that Aeneas ' flight , on what appears to us a legalistic pretext , from the ...
... emotional satisfaction . Yet no one may seriously claim that Roman law did not embody one of the most exalted and worthwhile ideals the world has known , nor that Aeneas ' flight , on what appears to us a legalistic pretext , from the ...
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... emotional and intellectual control , and his demonstration of ethical growth - is due , to a large extent , to conflicting impulses in his relationship to society . On the surface - where will and duty hold sway - he journeys into ...
... emotional and intellectual control , and his demonstration of ethical growth - is due , to a large extent , to conflicting impulses in his relationship to society . On the surface - where will and duty hold sway - he journeys into ...
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... emotional sublimation and catharsis , but it is only half the story , for as the stanza evolves the prayer implies also a compensation for courageous endurance of wrong , and it obliquely hints to those forces of hatred and fate not ...
... emotional sublimation and catharsis , but it is only half the story , for as the stanza evolves the prayer implies also a compensation for courageous endurance of wrong , and it obliquely hints to those forces of hatred and fate not ...
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