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Page 45
... scene verges on the allegorical , though as an allegorical image it has no pronounced content . More overtly allegorical , and possessing that content precisely because of its singularity , is the figure of the blind beggar in Book ...
... scene verges on the allegorical , though as an allegorical image it has no pronounced content . More overtly allegorical , and possessing that content precisely because of its singularity , is the figure of the blind beggar in Book ...
Page 62
... scene that the bird experiences . He knows that he must will into being whatever meaning is in the scene . This is far more drastic than are most poems of encounter . Yet , curiously , there is within it neither melancholy nor a bitter ...
... scene that the bird experiences . He knows that he must will into being whatever meaning is in the scene . This is far more drastic than are most poems of encounter . Yet , curiously , there is within it neither melancholy nor a bitter ...
Page 65
... scene . Just before this passage there are some circumstantial sentences which describe the dif- ferent forms the road took , sentences whose brief , pointed shifts in detailed observation had given a more elaborate texture to the scene ...
... scene . Just before this passage there are some circumstantial sentences which describe the dif- ferent forms the road took , sentences whose brief , pointed shifts in detailed observation had given a more elaborate texture to the scene ...
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 |