This is the first key connection between Whitman and Rilke's ideal of the self, as Rilke also believed that humans had to stop focusing on what we think the world is, and start noticing the truth: Yes, the springtimes have needed you. ... Another passage shows this inward focus, and has an even stronger connection to Whitman. ... (The Eighth Elegy, p 211) This passage could be placed into Song of Myself, and it would fit perfectly. ... It is readily apparent from this passage that Rilke believed that men and angels cannot possibly comprehend each other, as well as that both angel a...

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Good literature is considered not an escape from reality , but a plunge into a deeper reality, where universal truth's are glimpsed. This statement is true to a high degree for both, The Stone Angel , by Margaret Laurence and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. The protagonists, Hagar in The Stone Ange...

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But the King quoted a passage from the Lord, which said, "The souls are mine"(Ezek 18:4). ... Another key reason is that the patients are clinically depressed. ... Another key point of argument was found on the internet from La Trobe University. ...

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