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Page 175
... symbolic scheme as a basis of interpretation , it would appear that the term symbol cannot profitably be avoided in a reading of the poem . It is hardly possible to dispense with it , as a ' focus of relationships ' , in George ...
... symbolic scheme as a basis of interpretation , it would appear that the term symbol cannot profitably be avoided in a reading of the poem . It is hardly possible to dispense with it , as a ' focus of relationships ' , in George ...
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... symbolic sense . This symbolic ex- tension is felt in particular through the association of these sea- images with the idea of unending quest : ' Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough / Gleams that untravell'd world , whose mar ...
... symbolic sense . This symbolic ex- tension is felt in particular through the association of these sea- images with the idea of unending quest : ' Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough / Gleams that untravell'd world , whose mar ...
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... symbolic meaning , and be- cause he needed an image to complete the main antithesis of the poem and one which at the same time would sustain the struc- tural metaphor of song , or poetry . It is the ritual of a poet's death and rebirth ...
... symbolic meaning , and be- cause he needed an image to complete the main antithesis of the poem and one which at the same time would sustain the struc- tural metaphor of song , or poetry . It is the ritual of a poet's death and rebirth ...
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