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... images . It is difficult to reason without using them ; our dreams are almost wholly made up of them . We can think of images as differing from ideas or thoughts in that images are always made up of sense data : they deal in such ...
... images . It is difficult to reason without using them ; our dreams are almost wholly made up of them . We can think of images as differing from ideas or thoughts in that images are always made up of sense data : they deal in such ...
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... image , the poem has two others of an especially powerful sort . In some " A is like B " images , certain overtones of the B make the comparison ridiculous . Images in " No Second Troy " do just the opposite : besides being like A , the ...
... image , the poem has two others of an especially powerful sort . In some " A is like B " images , certain overtones of the B make the comparison ridiculous . Images in " No Second Troy " do just the opposite : besides being like A , the ...
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... images make it aware of . Emotion , like imagery , is conditioned by our physio- logical history ; we can no more feel a disembodied emotion than per- ceive a disembodied image . Why do cats dislike getting their feet wet ? Darwin ...
... images make it aware of . Emotion , like imagery , is conditioned by our physio- logical history ; we can no more feel a disembodied emotion than per- ceive a disembodied image . Why do cats dislike getting their feet wet ? Darwin ...
Contents
Exercises and Diversions | 20 |
Allusion | 37 |
George Herbert Hope | 45 |
Copyright | |
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accent alliteration beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold comes dark dead death deep dream earth effect emotion English example expressive eyes face fall feel feet five flowers four girl give gone green hair hand head hear heard heart human iambic images John keep kind language leaves less light lines lips live look means mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rhyme rhythm Robert seems sense shape sing snow sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tears tell things Thomas thou thought tree turn voice vowel walk waves wind words writing Yeats young