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... least one instance in which these powers failed , and that ominous note sounds as a sour undertone throughout the whole poem . What happened to the observer in those early stanzas is very close in kind to what happened after Godwin had ...
... least one instance in which these powers failed , and that ominous note sounds as a sour undertone throughout the whole poem . What happened to the observer in those early stanzas is very close in kind to what happened after Godwin had ...
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... least two patterns , obviously very closely related and ultimately shading off into each other . One , seen in this poem , is temporary and can perhaps be overcome by a radical change of heart which will cleanse the doors of perception ...
... least two patterns , obviously very closely related and ultimately shading off into each other . One , seen in this poem , is temporary and can perhaps be overcome by a radical change of heart which will cleanse the doors of perception ...
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... least that he is on the verge of doing so . The stanza holds a flood of personal pronouns . At the same time , it carefully brings in a series of substantives that progresses up the ladder of abstraction as the nouns show increasingly ...
... least that he is on the verge of doing so . The stanza holds a flood of personal pronouns . At the same time , it carefully brings in a series of substantives that progresses up the ladder of abstraction as the nouns show increasingly ...
Contents
Knowledge of Encounter | 3 |
The Presence of Singularity | 28 |
The Farthest Reach of Sense | 49 |
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activity appears aspects assertion awareness becomes beginning bird bring called clear clearly close coherence Coleridge comes complete context continuity create dance defined difficult dimensions direction early earth effect elements encounter experience fact feel figure finally force further gives happened hold human idea imaginative important indicates intensity involved Keats kind knowledge leads learned least less limitations lines living looked lyric meaning meeting mind mode moment moments moral move movement nature never object observer offers passage pattern perhaps physical poem poet poetry possible Prelude presence Press probably qualities question reach relationship romantic scene seems seen sense separate shape share shows similar single situation Solitary song sound stands stanza Stepping strange things thought truth turn understanding universe usually vision voice wanted whole Wordsworth worth
References to this book
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement David Simpson No preview available - 1987 |