Colby Quarterly, Volume 34Colby College, 1998 |
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Page 59
... seems to be called for : but there is no certain means of judging . The poem is also a dramatization of a turning , a tropos ; its progress is apotropaic . The title of the poem has already supplied us with its immediate religious ...
... seems to be called for : but there is no certain means of judging . The poem is also a dramatization of a turning , a tropos ; its progress is apotropaic . The title of the poem has already supplied us with its immediate religious ...
Page 71
... seems the only option , but equivocation should not be an impotent quavering . So once again the speaker turns to human existence because that is where we belong : And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices In the lost lilac and the lost ...
... seems the only option , but equivocation should not be an impotent quavering . So once again the speaker turns to human existence because that is where we belong : And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices In the lost lilac and the lost ...
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... seems to be capitulating to ordinary religious humility - witness the all too familiar trope " Our peace in His will " -- but this is at best fainthearted , not truly devout . We should recall here that Eliot employs the religious trope ...
... seems to be capitulating to ordinary religious humility - witness the all too familiar trope " Our peace in His will " -- but this is at best fainthearted , not truly devout . We should recall here that Eliot employs the religious trope ...
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