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 Book of the Duchess, The Dream (Lines 291-1334) The narrator now begins recounting his dream. ......

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It involves the true sight of an animal, and "Where we see the future, he sees all, and sees himself in everything, / he and all, whole always." ... The difference is, Whitman would offer a way to connect with this animal, to share in what it experiences. ... He did write quite a bit about angels, but he used them more as an aloof standard that humanity should attempt to live up to, as well as an interesting comparison to the simple animals, not as a religious figure. ... It is also apparent that since Rilke saw angels (and animals) as such an aloof, impossible standard to live up to, the...

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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.  ... The poet compares himself to the yews...

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A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). ...

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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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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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