Dickinson's works, in contrast, condense intense feelings and thoughts in a few terse lines, in which, despite innocent and simple language, her symbolic and careful word-choice makes the main message very ambiguous and difficult to interpret. ... The poem's nectar is nothing but the poet's intimacy expressed in her own work; for this reason the word 'me' has replaced 'rose' in the last line. 2.2. ... The word 'Vase' from the letter (note capitalization)as "an open container, often used to hold cut flowers " (www.websters-online-dicti...

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Thus when Ginsberg Composes Howl he is merely building a castle from the materials created by those who preceded him Poetry can trace its origins the to origination of Man. ... The word poetry is derived from a Greek word, poesis, meaning "making" or "creating." ...

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THREE ASPECTS ON BLAKE"S THE LAMB INTRODUCTION The literature at the beginning of the 19th century, reacted to the Enlightenment which emphasized reason and practical use in human abilities. The poets of the preromantic age, in reaction to the reasoning turned again to nature, senses an...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and assoc...

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An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. ...

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