Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. ... Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. ... The fact that both of the dreams described in these references contained important commentary on real events foreshadows that the narrator's dream will do the same. ... The B...

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As readers, we can see these strengths brilliantly manifested within the poetry and that Keats has a preoccupation with the impossibility of possessing reality. ... The poetry itself is a catalyst for Keats's obvious intentions between two opposing escapisms- into unconsciousness and into a painful acceptance of intense life- is replayed within the poetry with immediate effect. ... "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? ... As scepticism reasserts itself, the poet is drawn back from the timelessness of the dream and into the temporal. ... What becomes obvious in reading these poems is Keats...

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I stood there for a long time, peering deep into that darkness, wondering, fearing, doubting and dreaming dreams no being ever dared to dream before (25-26). ... I turned back into my chamber, all my soul within me radiating, and soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before (31-32). ... By that Heaven that exists above us- by the God we both honor- tell my sad soul if, within the distant Aidenn, there waits a saintly maiden called Lenore (91-95). ...

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In section 13 another notion is presented; to Tennyson, time is something that oscillates along a past-present-past-present continuum, we can experience the immanence of the past, then the past resurfaces in the present, patterning natural or human cyclical phenomena, moreover the past links to the present in which dreams and illusions intertwine with reality. As we can see in section 13 the poet is confused by this intertwining of dream and reality and I think that for the poet the appropriate solution is death, in order to remove this grief.  ...

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She creates a fairy-tale atmosphere, suggested by the inclusion of the goblin men and the adolescent independence of Laura and Lizzie who reside in this dream-like world, would suggest that this is a children's poem. ... Amongst the "indelicate" themes interpreted within Goblin Market are homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. ...

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This was clearly indicated at the beginning of the play when he said that he had hatched fiendish plots through drunken prophecies and dreams to set his brother George and the king in deadly hate against each other (1.1.32-35) to initiate a family feud, which would subsequently prevent George of Clarence from being a potential successor to the throne. ... His dream was coming true (Shakespeare & Crowther 280). ...

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It is interesting how poets from different writing periods can have similar views. Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." Whitman believed that a poet's thoughts were "hymns of praise" (1855 preface to Leaves of Grass) to things, and Rilke believed that a poet had to "win the confidence" (Letters to a Young Poet) of things. Both poets also felt that we have to reach a certain level before we truly experience life. Of course, both poets had differe...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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