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Page 65
... 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 concern with ...
... 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 concern with ...
Page 68
... Death " there are the lines in which Bishop Porteus , lapsing into the heavy irony of the pulpit moralist , had written : " In Fancy's fairy paths / Let the gay songster rove , and gently trill / The strain of empty joy . " In ...
... Death " there are the lines in which Bishop Porteus , lapsing into the heavy irony of the pulpit moralist , had written : " In Fancy's fairy paths / Let the gay songster rove , and gently trill / The strain of empty joy . " In ...
Page 83
... death has been all but forgotten . The emotional and intellectual power that had created " Thanatopsis " had been ... death for the mortal man . Within the great cycles of history and nature , these poems assert , death operates ...
... death has been all but forgotten . The emotional and intellectual power that had created " Thanatopsis " had been ... death for the mortal man . Within the great cycles of history and nature , these poems assert , death operates ...
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