It is worth noting the conclusion made by modern scholars Travis and Barlowe who point out that by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can remind us all of the oppressive discursive practices involved in gender politics" (pp. 50). This type of consideration of the myth in terms of its modern application ultimately results in an understanding that it is not a story of clear-cut or unambiguous ster...

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How does Blake's poetry comment on Urizen's longings? The Urizenic ideology of immutability is what Blake seeks to subvert and destroy throughout his poetry. ... It is also reminiscent of the fear of the Industrial Revolution which was prevalent in poetry in Blake's time. ...

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He did not think about the world in abstract terms like Plato. ... He spent his life writing about everything that he thought about or observed: poetry, ethics, politics, physics, mathematics, anatomy, physiology, and logic, just to name a few of his areas of interest and thought. ... He saw objects and organisms in terms of what the currently were and of what they could become. ...

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Terms such as "life,"" "reality,"" and "truth- are likely to be accepted and held up by any critic of her time, but how does Woolf understand them? ... He is so close to life and so able to see the real that "his poetry flows from him free and unimpeded-. ...

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