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... poem's meaning than its ritual source of energy . Pearls in the poem are variously decorous , luminous , flowing , formal , static , and personal . Linked to imagery and plot , they animate all the space within the poem's circumference ...
... poem's meaning than its ritual source of energy . Pearls in the poem are variously decorous , luminous , flowing , formal , static , and personal . Linked to imagery and plot , they animate all the space within the poem's circumference ...
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... poem's completed form . A figural read- ing of Pearl satisfies an elegiac interpretation of either the narra- tor's or the poet's situation . The poem may well have its source in a deep sense of loss — either actual grief or its poetic ...
... poem's completed form . A figural read- ing of Pearl satisfies an elegiac interpretation of either the narra- tor's or the poet's situation . The poem may well have its source in a deep sense of loss — either actual grief or its poetic ...
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... poetic world is an egg which the imagination fertilizes . If we apply this image to Jerusalem , the poem becomes an englobed and englobing space , a self - encircling or self - creating act for poet and reader . The poem is an enticing ...
... poetic world is an egg which the imagination fertilizes . If we apply this image to Jerusalem , the poem becomes an englobed and englobing space , a self - encircling or self - creating act for poet and reader . The poem is an enticing ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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