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... ancient literature , of giving his subject a metaphorical treatment . In a manner closely analogous to Homer's , the realms of spirit and of the material world were for Virgil coincident . 2 If we wish to understand Virgil in this ...
... ancient literature , of giving his subject a metaphorical treatment . In a manner closely analogous to Homer's , the realms of spirit and of the material world were for Virgil coincident . 2 If we wish to understand Virgil in this ...
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... Ancient Mariner : In The Ancient Mariner he had fashioned a myth in narrative form , weaving it around a group of symbols , few of which - and notably the albatross - were consecrated by previous symbolic use ... Coleridge's personal ...
... Ancient Mariner : In The Ancient Mariner he had fashioned a myth in narrative form , weaving it around a group of symbols , few of which - and notably the albatross - were consecrated by previous symbolic use ... Coleridge's personal ...
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... ancient symbols , as well as the more recent sun - symbolism of the mystics , may have gravitated to the central design of the poem , along with the myriad ' sleeping images ' traced by Lowes . And it is possible that the ancient myths ...
... ancient symbols , as well as the more recent sun - symbolism of the mystics , may have gravitated to the central design of the poem , along with the myriad ' sleeping images ' traced by Lowes . And it is possible that the ancient myths ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Aeneid allegory ancient appears Arnold aspect Athena beauty Beowulf bird Book Bunyan Byron Byzantium calm Canterbury Tales Canto Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Childe Roland Cleanth Brooks Coleridge Coleridge's context contrast critics cultic Dante Dante's death dream elements emotional epic episode eternal evil exile experience exploration fate feeling freedom golden bough Greece Greek heart hero Homeric human Ibid idea imagery imagination implies important impulses journey landscape lines living lonely Mariner Mariner's Maud Bodkin meaning meditation metaphor mind mood moral myth nature Odysseus passage pastoral pattern peace pilgrim pilgrimage poem poet poet's poetic poetry Prelude quest rebirth religious ritual Romantic Rome Sailing Sailing to Byzantium scene scenery Scholar Gipsy sense society soul spiritual stanzas structure suggests symbolic teleological Tennyson theme things thou traditional travel metaphor tree truth Ulysses vision vivid voyage W. B. Yeats wanderer Wordsworth Yeats