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... final stress in the line has a fine expressiveness as a transition to the nasty deranged irony of the third line ( " excellent , " of course , scans as two syllables to avoid the anapest . ) 66 During the later seventeenth and the ...
... final stress in the line has a fine expressiveness as a transition to the nasty deranged irony of the third line ( " excellent , " of course , scans as two syllables to avoid the anapest . ) 66 During the later seventeenth and the ...
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... final justification of his belief : No living man can drink from the whole wine . I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock . The last line here is a slight alteration of the corresponding one in the second stanza , an ...
... final justification of his belief : No living man can drink from the whole wine . I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock . The last line here is a slight alteration of the corresponding one in the second stanza , an ...
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... final realization of the woman's faithlessness . The bare simplicity of that concluding monosyllabic couplet seems exactly right for the poem's hard - won realization ; but , again , its location in the poem's whole design – in the ...
... final realization of the woman's faithlessness . The bare simplicity of that concluding monosyllabic couplet seems exactly right for the poem's hard - won realization ; but , again , its location in the poem's whole design – in the ...
Contents
Milton Satan and | 1 |
Roots and Possibilities | 19 |
Yeats and his Supernatural System | 37 |
Copyright | |
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