This time the conflict goes one step further and is ironically portrayed in a militaristic style with "I established a dreaded bridgehead" and "This terror (the rat) retreated- and was actually won by man, or the boy in this case, "He trained on me. ... There is no negative illustration of nature or man, and there is no dominance of the two in the writing. ... "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" obviously has the main difference with more archaic style of writing and traditional portrayal of man and nature. ... Again, in the writing the dominance of nature can be found which is typical of the era it wa...

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He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ...

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