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3 THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN 1 FIRE AND OF THE COMFORT OF THE RESURRECTION Cloud - puffball , torn tufts , tossed pillows ' flaunt forth , then chevy ? on an airbuilt thoroughfare : heaven - roysterers , in gay - gangs I they throng ...
3 THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN 1 FIRE AND OF THE COMFORT OF THE RESURRECTION Cloud - puffball , torn tufts , tossed pillows ' flaunt forth , then chevy ? on an airbuilt thoroughfare : heaven - roysterers , in gay - gangs I they throng ...
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Deck or bulkheads of a ship buckle before fire breaks through ; walls of a building buckle before they crash or burn . In “ The Windhover ” the whole material world buckles , “ AND the fire " of the spiritual world — or Christ— " breaks ...
Deck or bulkheads of a ship buckle before fire breaks through ; walls of a building buckle before they crash or burn . In “ The Windhover ” the whole material world buckles , “ AND the fire " of the spiritual world — or Christ— " breaks ...
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Only the ' Owner ' has a thumb to raise the hammer , and a finger to fire the gun , but here it fires itself . Her gun - life has so usurped the initiative as to reduce his function to hunting while she herself does the shooting .
Only the ' Owner ' has a thumb to raise the hammer , and a finger to fire the gun , but here it fires itself . Her gun - life has so usurped the initiative as to reduce his function to hunting while she herself does the shooting .
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Contents
Poems | 36 |
of the Queens Navee 50 LAWRENCE Snake 51 JEFFERS Hurt | 57 |
West Wind 68 HERRICK An Ode for Ben Jonson 71 GRAY Elegy | 76 |
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appears beauty begin birds body born bright close comes criticism dark dead death deep dream earth experience eyes face fair fall fear feel fields fire flowers gives green grow hand head hear heard heart heaven hills human images John kind land language leaves light lines live look lovers meaning mind moon moral morning move nature never night once pass past pattern play poem poet poetry present reader rest rhyme river round seems sense ship side sight sing sleep song sonnet soon soul sound spirit spring stand stanza stars sweet symbol tears tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought trees true turn voice wind woods young
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Dimensions of Poetry: A Critical Anthology |
| Editors | James Edwin Miller, Bernice Slote |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1966 |
| Length | 742 pages |
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