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... Death Kit this privacy is realized in the body of the central character . 6 Death Kit progresses toward an inclusive and enclosing meta- phor . Death , defined at the end of the book as " being completely inside one's own head " ( 310 ...
... Death Kit this privacy is realized in the body of the central character . 6 Death Kit progresses toward an inclusive and enclosing meta- phor . Death , defined at the end of the book as " being completely inside one's own head " ( 310 ...
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... death . In the first stanza we learn that the narrator's pearl was lost in a gar- den , falling " Pur3 gresse to grounde " ( 10 ) . With its brilliance “ so clad in clot " [ so clad in clay ] ( 22 ) , the pearl is described as a seed ...
... death . In the first stanza we learn that the narrator's pearl was lost in a gar- den , falling " Pur3 gresse to grounde " ( 10 ) . With its brilliance “ so clad in clot " [ so clad in clay ] ( 22 ) , the pearl is described as a seed ...
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... death tolerable . Paradise Regained opens the world to an influx of eternity that makes death imminent . The space of the poem lies between the Eden where Satan enviously witnessed Adam and Eve " Imparadis't in one another's arms " ( PL ...
... death tolerable . Paradise Regained opens the world to an influx of eternity that makes death imminent . The space of the poem lies between the Eden where Satan enviously witnessed Adam and Eve " Imparadis't in one another's arms " ( PL ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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