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Page 103
The design of the final paragraph is as direct and simple as Pope ever gets ; but like Marvell or Herrick , he invests the inexorable truisms of life with freshness and vitality : Then cease , bright Nymph ! to mourn thy ravish'd Hair 2 ...
The design of the final paragraph is as direct and simple as Pope ever gets ; but like Marvell or Herrick , he invests the inexorable truisms of life with freshness and vitality : Then cease , bright Nymph ! to mourn thy ravish'd Hair 2 ...
Page 146
1–8 ) Slow and intense , the first couplet introduces the porten- tous theme of final darkness . Its inversion puts the em- phasis on Chaos and Night , whose literal meaning is obvious , for Pope begs them to wait ; and " eternal Night ...
1–8 ) Slow and intense , the first couplet introduces the porten- tous theme of final darkness . Its inversion puts the em- phasis on Chaos and Night , whose literal meaning is obvious , for Pope begs them to wait ; and " eternal Night ...
Page 150
At last the final couplets grow more neutrally structured , the actor grows more abstract , and with the subordination and inversion of the final two couplets , comes to an overwhelming climax . Appro- priately the butterfly is not ...
At last the final couplets grow more neutrally structured , the actor grows more abstract , and with the subordination and inversion of the final two couplets , comes to an overwhelming climax . Appro- priately the butterfly is not ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Pastorals 1709 | 17 |
An Essay on Criticism 1711 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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