This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ... In the seventh line, mentioning the hummingbird which feeds nectar from the flower's deep cup (www.britannica.com), Emily is inviting Ms Flint to feed on these profound, hidden and endless truths, the poem's nectar, exploring deeper its meanings , putting her lips to the rose and sip it. The poem's nectar is nothing but the poet's intimacy expressed in her own work; for this re...

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What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...

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But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". ... 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 "...

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