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... poetry as a life - giving activity Byron is a thorough Romantic . The statement contains , moreover , the implicit idea of sublimation and catharsis . In the light of this poetic confession , Byron's poem of exile suggests certain ...
... poetry as a life - giving activity Byron is a thorough Romantic . The statement contains , moreover , the implicit idea of sublimation and catharsis . In the light of this poetic confession , Byron's poem of exile suggests certain ...
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... poetry that whenever they left their ' bowers ' they performed their public duty at the expense of great poetry . Though Arnold placed Wordsworth in the ' minor current ' of English literature , he paid him a significant tribute : He ...
... poetry that whenever they left their ' bowers ' they performed their public duty at the expense of great poetry . Though Arnold placed Wordsworth in the ' minor current ' of English literature , he paid him a significant tribute : He ...
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... poetry . It is the ritual of a poet's death and rebirth we are attending , and we might expect that in the intricacies of Yeats's symbolism the ways of his art and his ... poetry which the poet leaves as immortal YEATS : TO BYZANTIUM 345.
... poetry . It is the ritual of a poet's death and rebirth we are attending , and we might expect that in the intricacies of Yeats's symbolism the ways of his art and his ... poetry which the poet leaves as immortal YEATS : TO BYZANTIUM 345.
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