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... images and rhythms in a meaningful synthesis . If nature poetry was to draw much of its power from religious experience , however , it faced the great dilemma well known to the saints and mystics of the West . Subsequent to the tidal ...
... images and rhythms in a meaningful synthesis . If nature poetry was to draw much of its power from religious experience , however , it faced the great dilemma well known to the saints and mystics of the West . Subsequent to the tidal ...
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... images were not easily distinguishable . That nature might itself project a meta- phorical language , no better than the vision that changes its focus from one poem to the next , was the unique realization of “ Thana- topsis " : " To ...
... images were not easily distinguishable . That nature might itself project a meta- phorical language , no better than the vision that changes its focus from one poem to the next , was the unique realization of “ Thana- topsis " : " To ...
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... images Of the stern agony , and shroud , and pall , And breathless darkness , and the narrow house , Make thee to ... image . Earth , that nourished thee , shall claim Thy growth , to be resolved to earth again , And , lost each human ...
... images Of the stern agony , and shroud , and pall , And breathless darkness , and the narrow house , Make thee to ... image . Earth , that nourished thee , shall claim Thy growth , to be resolved to earth again , And , lost each human ...
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