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... sphere of God's presence , the kingdom which the dreamer can glimpse but cannot yet enter . The lost pearl , repeatedly linked to the kingdom of heaven , offers the poem its supreme circular image : a perfect sphere - circularity made ...
... sphere of God's presence , the kingdom which the dreamer can glimpse but cannot yet enter . The lost pearl , repeatedly linked to the kingdom of heaven , offers the poem its supreme circular image : a perfect sphere - circularity made ...
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... sphere as well : “ Al wer we dampned for žat mete " ( 641 ) ; when we lost Eden , we lost both innocence and immortality . The poem's use of " spot " as both " flaw " and " place " elaborates the image of our violated earthly sphere ...
... sphere as well : “ Al wer we dampned for žat mete " ( 641 ) ; when we lost Eden , we lost both innocence and immortality . The poem's use of " spot " as both " flaw " and " place " elaborates the image of our violated earthly sphere ...
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... sphere of heaven but the violated sphere of human exis- tence , the flawed circumference of human understanding . How many readers , listing the number of lines as 1212 , have wanted to perfect its form ? Pearl's partial roundness ...
... sphere of heaven but the violated sphere of human exis- tence , the flawed circumference of human understanding . How many readers , listing the number of lines as 1212 , have wanted to perfect its form ? Pearl's partial roundness ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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