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... peasant not as simple man , but as great man circumscribed , or , as he puts it in stanza 13 , ' Chill Penury repressed their noble rage , / And froze the genial current of the soul . ' The tension in the speaker between his desire to ...
... peasant not as simple man , but as great man circumscribed , or , as he puts it in stanza 13 , ' Chill Penury repressed their noble rage , / And froze the genial current of the soul . ' The tension in the speaker between his desire to ...
Page 158
... peasant confinement acceptable . In stanza 17 we are told , ' nor circumscribed alone / Their growing virtues , but their crimes confined ' . This returns us to the issue of whether the urges of the peasants were frozen by , or ...
... peasant confinement acceptable . In stanza 17 we are told , ' nor circumscribed alone / Their growing virtues , but their crimes confined ' . This returns us to the issue of whether the urges of the peasants were frozen by , or ...
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... peasant . The poppies which ' nodding , mock the hope of toil ' , perhaps remind us of the ' sleepy bards ' ( 17 ) . The ' blue bugloss [ that ] paints the sterile soil ' recalls both the ' Can poets soothe you , when you pine for bread ...
... peasant . The poppies which ' nodding , mock the hope of toil ' , perhaps remind us of the ' sleepy bards ' ( 17 ) . The ' blue bugloss [ that ] paints the sterile soil ' recalls both the ' Can poets soothe you , when you pine for bread ...
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