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... Prairies " was inspired , as Bryant's notes suggest , by his first exposure to the interminable stretches of land and sky to be found in the Great Plains . He had come upon them as he traveled westward to visit his brother , a settler ...
... Prairies " was inspired , as Bryant's notes suggest , by his first exposure to the interminable stretches of land and sky to be found in the Great Plains . He had come upon them as he traveled westward to visit his brother , a settler ...
Page 43
... Prairies " is , thus , illustrative of Bryant's treatment of Nature in his better poems , particularly those in blank verse ; but it differs from them in one important respect . It is one of the few poems which takes place in the open ...
... Prairies " is , thus , illustrative of Bryant's treatment of Nature in his better poems , particularly those in blank verse ; but it differs from them in one important respect . It is one of the few poems which takes place in the open ...
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... prairie flower . The first way of seeing is that of the " wanderer " : the " dilated eye " through which Bryant himself had first seen the prairies . The vision is pictorial , and each detail is composed within the frame of the vista ...
... prairie flower . The first way of seeing is that of the " wanderer " : the " dilated eye " through which Bryant himself had first seen the prairies . The vision is pictorial , and each detail is composed within the frame of the vista ...
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