"* The "divine attributes of innocence", in the second stanza, undergo a sinister metamorphosis to prepare for "Blake's naturalistic fall of man"*, much like the traditional fall commonly known as the story of Adam and Eve, it involves a tree. ... Also, Blake's tree can now be considered to be developing leaves and branches, in other words expanding as implies the word "spreads". ... In Blake's "Proverbs of hell", he states: "As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys." ...

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FALLEN SOLDIER IN THE MIDDLE EAST And we, what are we? Just wandering souls Like foundations of crumbling houses And I wished that you"d be An olive tree That blossoms and promises fruit That bears within it a riddle Of ripe and age. And I wished that you"d be A palm tree Rooted b...

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In Mordecai Richler's: "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," Duddy's cause of rise and fall is triggered by a few unforgettable words Simcha told him "A man without land is nobody" (49). ... When Simcha tells him "a man without land is nobody" he leaves a great effect on him, this is because he had no other parental support (49). ...

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He is detached from his surroundings as "suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes", his desolate state remarkable in its pathos: his "shirts and pants soggy", "black raincoat stained with mud" and "bag stuffed with books is falling apart". ... Just as the torrent to sweeps over him, like the cold water over his brown hands, it leaves behind pangs of mental sorrow and pain to which he is afflicted everywhere. ...

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Meursault disobeys the general rules of etiquette by refusing to see his mother's cadaver, and falling asleep and accepting coffee and cigarettes at the vigil. ... Marie visits Meursault in prison, and before she leaves she shouts to him that he "had to have hope" (75). ...

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The unrestricted narration also allows us to understand the despair on her face when Papa leaves and she was unable to tell him that the baby may be another man's baby. ... And then, we are shown pictures of him getting attacked by thugs and falling in love with a pretty nurse at the hospital he is taken to. ...

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Deconstructive Criticism Literary Criticism is a language of interpretation of author's ideas. Deconstructive Criticism is the transaction between the reader and text. The ideas of a Deconstructive Criticism start with theory, how critics approach Deconstructionism and Deconstructive Critic...

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