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... Earth , " composed two years later in 1834 , approached the problem of national sentiment in an entirely different manner . The sensibility of the poet encountered not a vast stage for heroic enterprise in Nature but a formless and ...
... Earth , " composed two years later in 1834 , approached the problem of national sentiment in an entirely different manner . The sensibility of the poet encountered not a vast stage for heroic enterprise in Nature but a formless and ...
Page 45
... Earth and the dead loved ones are momentarily synthesized : “ Alone , in darkness , on thy naked soil , / The mighty nourisher and burial - place / Of man , I feel that I embrace their dust . " ... In the lines immediately following ...
... Earth and the dead loved ones are momentarily synthesized : “ Alone , in darkness , on thy naked soil , / The mighty nourisher and burial - place / Of man , I feel that I embrace their dust . " ... In the lines immediately following ...
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... Earth is distinctive among the various forces in Nature . Unlike the hostile elements , Earth sustains man like a mother and provides him " with a couch of rest at his death . " In spite of the buffets of life , natural man is not ...
... Earth is distinctive among the various forces in Nature . Unlike the hostile elements , Earth sustains man like a mother and provides him " with a couch of rest at his death . " In spite of the buffets of life , natural man is not ...
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