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... sentiment tended , it seems , to follow well - worn ruts . Yet the poem's limited point of view and its carefully restricted emotional appeal remained inviolate as each successive revision defined the problem more closely and ...
... sentiment tended , it seems , to follow well - worn ruts . Yet the poem's limited point of view and its carefully restricted emotional appeal remained inviolate as each successive revision defined the problem more closely and ...
Page 127
... sentiment into natural objects , and bringing images of visible beauty and majesty to heighten the effect of moral sentiment . Thus it binds into one all the passages of human life and connects all the varieties of human feeling within ...
... sentiment into natural objects , and bringing images of visible beauty and majesty to heighten the effect of moral sentiment . Thus it binds into one all the passages of human life and connects all the varieties of human feeling within ...
Page 128
... sentiment is restrained ; the imagery is suggestive within an inclusive framework of 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 ...
... sentiment is restrained ; the imagery is suggestive within an inclusive framework of 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 ...
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