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... lines - future indicative " I shall be useful " followed by the more conditional " the trees may touch me for once " -leaves the poem unresolved . Scansion of the lines indicates a combination of anapestic , tro- chaic and dactylic ...
... lines - future indicative " I shall be useful " followed by the more conditional " the trees may touch me for once " -leaves the poem unresolved . Scansion of the lines indicates a combination of anapestic , tro- chaic and dactylic ...
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... Lines 5-7 represent one side of a diptych , balancing the less meta- phorically projected depiction of " a tree " in lines 1-4 . Opened out this way into the final three lines of the stanza , which includes both " tree " and " flower ...
... Lines 5-7 represent one side of a diptych , balancing the less meta- phorically projected depiction of " a tree " in lines 1-4 . Opened out this way into the final three lines of the stanza , which includes both " tree " and " flower ...
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... lines in the poem : You never know what life means until you die : Even thoughout life , ' t is death that makes life live , Gives it whatever the significance . ( XI , 2373-2375 ) For these admittedly powerful lines to signify some ...
... lines in the poem : You never know what life means until you die : Even thoughout life , ' t is death that makes life live , Gives it whatever the significance . ( XI , 2373-2375 ) For these admittedly powerful lines to signify some ...
Contents
Johnson Music and Music | 3 |
Hence with the Nightingale | 13 |
The Decadent View of Life | 19 |
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