Shakespeare's Imagery: And what it Tells UsAn analysis of the ways in which Shakespeare's imagery functions to reveal literary and personal motives. |
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... metaphor is and the philosophy which lies behind it . But I do not propose to do this . In the first place , metaphor is a subject of such deep import that it calls for an abler pen than mine to deal adequately with it . For I incline ...
... metaphor is and the philosophy which lies behind it . But I do not propose to do this . In the first place , metaphor is a subject of such deep import that it calls for an abler pen than mine to deal adequately with it . For I incline ...
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... metaphor in great poetry moves and stirs us in a way impossible to account for purely rationally and logically . It stirs us because it touches or awakens something in us , which I think we must call spiritual , at the very roots of our ...
... metaphor in great poetry moves and stirs us in a way impossible to account for purely rationally and logically . It stirs us because it touches or awakens something in us , which I think we must call spiritual , at the very roots of our ...
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... metaphor - which probably takes its rise very simply from the badges of York and Lancaster , together with the meaning of the name Plantagenet - clearly pleases Shakespeare , and , having started it in the first part of Henry VI , he ...
... metaphor - which probably takes its rise very simply from the badges of York and Lancaster , together with the meaning of the name Plantagenet - clearly pleases Shakespeare , and , having started it in the first part of Henry VI , he ...
Contents
The Aim and Method explained | 3 |
Shakespeares Imagery compared with | 12 |
Imagery of Shakespeare and other | 30 |
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