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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Cry I can no more

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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wring - world right foot rock

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Now done darkness

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Lay wrestling with my God

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Petrarchan - classic obedience to conventions

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Dark some, devouring

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, cheer

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Biographical resonances

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Apostrophe - speaks directly to Carrion, adamant he will not give in, aggressive

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Slack - weak, untwist - bound for strength

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Second part of octave - criticizes God, “most weary” - superlative, exhausted

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Not choose not to be - autonomy “I can no more, I can”

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Carrion Comfort - Hopkins

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Not that he has stopped loving God, God has stopped loving him

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LINK BETWEEN CARRION COMFORT AND THE FORSAKEN GARDEN

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Religion

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LINK BETWEEN CARRION COMFORT AND ULYSSES

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New taste for life

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Hungry heart

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Drunk delight of battle

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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I am a part of all that I have met

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ gleams that I travelled world whose margin fades forever and for ever as I move

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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A bringer of new things

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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It is not too late to seek a newer world - ageism

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Ithica, Telemachus - questionable judgement

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Long sentences in beginning, bird, ennui

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Feed off danger and admiration

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

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Ulysses - Tennyson

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Dramatic monologue - fatal flaw

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LINK BETWEEN ULYSSES AND FORSAKEN GARDEN

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Death closes all - no after life

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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The ghost of a garden fronts the sea

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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As the heart of a dead man the seed plots are dry - no renewal, death lies dead

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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What Love was ever as deep as a grave - death is more powerful

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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On e gaunt bleak blossom of scent less breath

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Death lies dead - link to death closes all

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Humbling high tides - we’re not immortal

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Love as deep as the sea as a rose must wither

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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He shall find no life but the sea-wind’s

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Sea and wind “remain” , things out of our control

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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The thorns he spares when the rose is taken - suggesting there is a value

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Plurality of meanings

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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World starts and ends same way

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Heart hand fast in heart - spares not even the strongest loves, reminder that we are not immortal, futility of life and love

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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne

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Here change may come not till all change end - all change is for the worse

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The forsaken garden - Swinburne

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Thorns on Jesus head symbol of memories of kingdom of God

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LINK BETWEEN THE FORSAKEN GARDEN AND THR GARDEN

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… Garden

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall - weak upper class, fragile, pure breed

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Emotional anemia - indifferent, cold

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Unkillable infants of the very poor, they shall inherit the earth

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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The end of breeding - pure bred, incest, now there are mutts, stronger

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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And she is dying piece - meal

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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She would like someone to speak to her and is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion - desperate loneliness

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Old woman - old society dying off

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Gradual clear shift of power to lower class

53
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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Present tense - transfer happens now

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The Garden - Ezra Pound

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Victims of changing fortunes of history but also architects of downfall

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LINK BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND THE SECOND COMING

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Fears for the unknown other

56
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The second coming - WB Yeats

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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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Vast image

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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The falcon cannot hear the falconer

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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Things fall apart

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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Rocking cradle

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The second coming - WB Yeats

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The darkness drops again - Jesus is the light, the truth and the way

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LINK BETWEEN THE SECOND COMING AND THE WASTELAND

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Jesus, loss of religion

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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April is the cruelest month

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust - no afterlife, no religious consolation

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Roots that clutch

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Living nor dead - empty lives

70
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Crowds of people walking round in a ring

71
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Each man fixed his eyes before his feet - no connection

72
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Strange synthetic perfumes

73
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Withered stumps of time - age rings, memories can’t be forgotten, rape victims

74
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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I swear, I can’t bear to look at you - husbands, lack of love, focus on beauty and Bella donnas

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Hurry up please, it’s time - biological clock, pressure on women

76
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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We who were living are now dying - religion, Jesus gives life, now there is no Jesus

77
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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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If there were on,y water amongst the rock

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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By this and this only, we have existed - connections, unreal, synthetic cities

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The wasteland - TS Eliot

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Datta - give, dayadvham- sympathise, damyata- control

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“Poems”

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Author –> (author)

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