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Page 49
... meaning may be overly explicit , but it is by no means gratuitous : it comes as the fruit of the observation and reflection of a human being strongly infected with the quality of a late autumn walk . Not only do these lines extract ...
... meaning may be overly explicit , but it is by no means gratuitous : it comes as the fruit of the observation and reflection of a human being strongly infected with the quality of a late autumn walk . Not only do these lines extract ...
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... meaning of death for the mortal man . Within the great cycles of history and nature , these poems assert , death operates unfailingly , not as a curse or a judgment , but as evidence of the permanent reality - spiritual and moral- that ...
... meaning of death for the mortal man . Within the great cycles of history and nature , these poems assert , death operates unfailingly , not as a curse or a judgment , but as evidence of the permanent reality - spiritual and moral- that ...
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... meaning . All in all , the poem shows Bryant at his figurative best , for each step in his train of associations contributes to a total perception of this prairie flower . The first way of seeing is that of the " wanderer " : the ...
... meaning . All in all , the poem shows Bryant at his figurative best , for each step in his train of associations contributes to a total perception of this prairie flower . The first way of seeing is that of the " wanderer " : the ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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