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... posture as the reflection on Satan's act . In his words is all the natural outpouring of potent life . But in Satan's amazement and stricken fall , the serpent's head reveals the secret form of its labyrinthine hollowness : So after ...
... posture as the reflection on Satan's act . In his words is all the natural outpouring of potent life . But in Satan's amazement and stricken fall , the serpent's head reveals the secret form of its labyrinthine hollowness : So after ...
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... posture is shaped by the world's oppressive presence : the poet " must hang / Brooding above the fierce confederate storm / Of sorrow " ( R , 830-32 ) . In his love of nature , Wordsworth inhabits his body and finds shelter in its ...
... posture is shaped by the world's oppressive presence : the poet " must hang / Brooding above the fierce confederate storm / Of sorrow " ( R , 830-32 ) . In his love of nature , Wordsworth inhabits his body and finds shelter in its ...
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... posture is not symbolic ; instead he performs a concrete and literal act of revelation . At the top of the mountain , the horizon of his mind overlays the horizon of the world . There the mind frames its book , The Prelude , in a moment ...
... posture is not symbolic ; instead he performs a concrete and literal act of revelation . At the top of the mountain , the horizon of his mind overlays the horizon of the world . There the mind frames its book , The Prelude , in a moment ...
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