Psychological Critical Theory's definition is a work of literature has done something valuable if it shed light upon the human mind, for example: Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, The Fall. ... His unique Leaves of Grass' was new in form and in content. ... No publisher or author's name was on the first edition of Leaves of Grass' in 1855. ...
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. ... It is in "the way a fountain's / falling is caught by its next jet as though in play . . ." ... while Rilke mentions in The Third Elegy on p. 190 that: [an unborn child] Loved his inner world, the wilderness inside himself, that primeval forest from among whose toppled trunks, accumulated leaves, and silent ruin rose his pale...
Anyway, in section 22 it is described a sort of experience of the author and Hallam that consists in a fall out of natural or seasonal time, they coexist with the natural passing of the seasons and at the end this cyclical time changes into a more linear time endowed by the immanence of death, represented by "the Shadow"; it is more explicit in another verse this concept of seasonal time "And every winter change to spring" in section 54 line 16. ...
A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In The Book of t...
Satan disobeys God, and the uprising led by him in the Heaven results in the fall of Satan and angels from the light to darkness and suffering. ... Nevertheless, his pride, defiance, and desire to gain more authority than God makes him rebel against God and eventually fall down to Hell together with other rebellious angels. ...
Goblin Market is one of Christina Rossetti's major narrative poems. Rossetti tells the story of two women and their betrayal that arrives in a vast number of levels each with varying effects. These betrayals are background by false ideals spawned from the innocence of these women. Their innocence is...
