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Page 65
... theme of death - death as it pertains immediately and personally to the poet - introduces elements which set this relationship between man and Nature apart from those examined in the previous chapter . This theme , by virtue of its ...
... theme of death - death as it pertains immediately and personally to the poet - introduces elements which set this relationship between man and Nature apart from those examined in the previous chapter . This theme , by virtue of its ...
Page 83
... theme . Such poems of wisdom as " Among the Trees , " “ October , 1866 , " " Tree - Burial , " " A Life Time , " and " The Flood of Years " lack the lyrical nerve and the intellectual bones of " Thanatopsis " ; but each seriously ...
... theme . Such poems of wisdom as " Among the Trees , " “ October , 1866 , " " Tree - Burial , " " A Life Time , " and " The Flood of Years " lack the lyrical nerve and the intellectual bones of " Thanatopsis " ; but each seriously ...
Page 96
... theme- indeed , he wrote a friend that composing this poem had made him " sick " -he understood his audience well.13 His measured rhetoric , his appeals to the pathetic impulses , and his descriptive vagueness - all these meet the ...
... theme- indeed , he wrote a friend that composing this poem had made him " sick " -he understood his audience well.13 His measured rhetoric , his appeals to the pathetic impulses , and his descriptive vagueness - all these meet the ...
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