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... heart . These problems are resolved , of course , but only through the process of the poem itself . The fourth and eighth stanzas in " To a Waterfowl " are not pious platitudes ; they are the efforts of the mind , and then of the heart ...
... heart . These problems are resolved , of course , but only through the process of the poem itself . The fourth and eighth stanzas in " To a Waterfowl " are not pious platitudes ; they are the efforts of the mind , and then of the heart ...
Page 53
... heart , " " a kindred with a loftier world , " and " The enlargement of . . . vision , " the experience is not one ... heart , " loses her gaiety , weeps in solitude , and wastes away until the sage dames of the tribe say , " The girl ...
... heart , " " a kindred with a loftier world , " and " The enlargement of . . . vision , " the experience is not one ... heart , " loses her gaiety , weeps in solitude , and wastes away until the sage dames of the tribe say , " The girl ...
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... heart than he had the pat affirmations of religion.10 He imitated this poet's neurotic apprehensiveness in such lines as " The cold clods press thy limbs above , / The darkness and the worm are there . " 11 And he located with even ...
... heart than he had the pat affirmations of religion.10 He imitated this poet's neurotic apprehensiveness in such lines as " The cold clods press thy limbs above , / The darkness and the worm are there . " 11 And he located with even ...
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