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... poem ? I think it may fairly be presumed that many readers of Thompson have enjoyed his poem without sharing that belief . To them his symbol of pursuit and salvation evidently remains a mere exercise of imagination , since they must ...
... poem ? I think it may fairly be presumed that many readers of Thompson have enjoyed his poem without sharing that belief . To them his symbol of pursuit and salvation evidently remains a mere exercise of imagination , since they must ...
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... poem , " Dead Souls . The title Dead Souls was chosen for its symbolic connotation . In this work Gogol intended to deal with the deadly condition of man . The poem was to be in two parts : the " dead souls " depicted in the first part ...
... poem , " Dead Souls . The title Dead Souls was chosen for its symbolic connotation . In this work Gogol intended to deal with the deadly condition of man . The poem was to be in two parts : the " dead souls " depicted in the first part ...
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... poem , we may take it as a terrible prophetic image- A shape with lion body and the head of a man , A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun— of the harsh totalitarianisms which in the twenties , when the poem was written , were still in ...
... poem , we may take it as a terrible prophetic image- A shape with lion body and the head of a man , A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun— of the harsh totalitarianisms which in the twenties , when the poem was written , were still in ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
PART I | 28 |
HYATT H WAGGONER Point of View in Ameri | 47 |
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