Strangers and Pilgrims: An Essay on the Metaphor of Journey |
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Page 63
... hero is ejected from the society into which he was born , whether by his own mis- demeanors , the machinations of envious relatives , simple mis- fortune , or by a poverty which makes his continued position in the society intolerable ...
... hero is ejected from the society into which he was born , whether by his own mis- demeanors , the machinations of envious relatives , simple mis- fortune , or by a poverty which makes his continued position in the society intolerable ...
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... hero . Even the later novels use friendship as a means to give the episodes along the traveller's route a certain coherence through the reappearance of characters , or , as the society - in - small , friendship between the hero and ...
... hero . Even the later novels use friendship as a means to give the episodes along the traveller's route a certain coherence through the reappearance of characters , or , as the society - in - small , friendship between the hero and ...
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... hero , and emphasises his restlessness and discontent , his yearning for ' a newer world ' . There are three main parts : the first presents the hero in situation and environment ( lines 1-32 ) ; the second dramatises the hero's task ...
... hero , and emphasises his restlessness and discontent , his yearning for ' a newer world ' . There are three main parts : the first presents the hero in situation and environment ( lines 1-32 ) ; the second dramatises the hero's task ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
Copyright | |
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actual Aeneid allegory ancient appears Arnold aspect beauty becomes beginning Book Byron Canto character Childe claim close concerned contrast course critics death deep early elements emerges emotional episode exile existence experience exploration eyes fact fate feeling felt figure final force freedom function hand heart hero Homeric human idea imagination important impulses interesting Italy journey kind land landscape later light lines living Mariner Mariner's meaning metaphor mind moral move myth nature object observe Odysseus once passage pattern peace poem poet poet's poetic poetry present quest relation religious represents ritual scene Scholar seems seen sense significant society soul spiritual stands stanzas story structure suggests symbolic takes things thou thought traditional tree true truth turn Ulysses vision voyage wanderer Wordsworth