ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture 15: RomantismSymbolistsandRealism.6
29 Oct 2017
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Romantic era: men have no shoes, food, etc. Are barely alive: men seem to be merely dreams, not even real men, just automatons barely functioning, vast solitude. Like a mute avenger everywhere : shroud of snow, symbolized knockin on death"s door, thousands of men died in their sleep, two foes, nature, que vive , by far the worst. Branches (soldiers) are breaking away branch by branch: dispute this, the men still believed in napoleon. Recognition of bad deeds: men that are dying before him are his responsibility. ), his hand on quiet breast, stretched in the grass : could just be sleeping, then more blatant hints of his death emerge, tiny, sickly child (vulnerable), he is cold . It"s a green hollow where a river sings. Where the sun on the proud mountain rings: It"s a little valley, foaming like light in a glass. And bare neck bathed in the cool blue cress,
