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Page 162
... contrast between the upper and the lower worlds is suggested , we get a metaphor of the Platonic dualism between the ideal and the material world . The vision of the sea of mist and the uncloud- ed sky above is one of purity and light ...
... contrast between the upper and the lower worlds is suggested , we get a metaphor of the Platonic dualism between the ideal and the material world . The vision of the sea of mist and the uncloud- ed sky above is one of purity and light ...
Page 185
... contrast persists in the vision of slimy things crawling about the unmoving ship , and ' death - fires dancing ' in ' reel and rout ' by night . This is the contrast which also controls the imaginative pattern of Part III , when the ...
... contrast persists in the vision of slimy things crawling about the unmoving ship , and ' death - fires dancing ' in ' reel and rout ' by night . This is the contrast which also controls the imaginative pattern of Part III , when the ...
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... contrast between endless water and nothing to drink ; there are further the steep antitheses between fixity and motion , day and night , heat and cold , hideousness and beauty , life and death . After the ' four times fifty living men ...
... contrast between endless water and nothing to drink ; there are further the steep antitheses between fixity and motion , day and night , heat and cold , hideousness and beauty , life and death . After the ' four times fifty living men ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
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