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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
Feed off danger and admiration
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Ulysses - Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield
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Ulysses - Tennyson
Dramatic monologue - fatal flaw
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LINK BETWEEN ULYSSES AND FORSAKEN GARDEN
Death closes all - no after life
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
The ghost of a garden fronts the sea
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
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
What Love was ever as deep as a grave - death is more powerful
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
On e gaunt bleak blossom of scent less breath
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Death lies dead - link to death closes all
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Humbling high tides - we're not immortal
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Love as deep as the sea as a rose must wither
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
He shall find no life but the sea-wind's
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Sea and wind "remain" , things out of our control
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
The thorns he spares when the rose is taken - suggesting there is a value
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Plurality of meanings
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
World starts and ends same way
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The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
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
Here change may come not till all change end - all change is for the worse
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The forsaken garden - Swinburne
Thorns on Jesus head symbol of memories of kingdom of God
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LINK BETWEEN THE FORSAKEN GARDEN AND THR GARDEN
... Garden
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall - weak upper class, fragile, pure breed
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
Emotional anemia - indifferent, cold
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
Unkillable infants of the very poor, they shall inherit the earth
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
The end of breeding - pure bred, incest, now there are mutts, stronger
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
And she is dying piece - meal
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
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
Old woman - old society dying off
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
Gradual clear shift of power to lower class
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
Present tense - transfer happens now
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The Garden - Ezra Pound
Victims of changing fortunes of history but also architects of downfall
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LINK BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND THE SECOND COMING
Fears for the unknown other
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The second coming - WB Yeats
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
The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity
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The second coming - WB Yeats
Vast image
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The second coming - WB Yeats
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
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The second coming - WB Yeats
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born
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The second coming - WB Yeats
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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The second coming - WB Yeats
Things fall apart
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The second coming - WB Yeats
Rocking cradle
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The second coming - WB Yeats
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
Jesus, loss of religion
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
April is the cruelest month
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust - no afterlife, no religious consolation
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Roots that clutch
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Living nor dead - empty lives
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Crowds of people walking round in a ring
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Each man fixed his eyes before his feet - no connection
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Strange synthetic perfumes
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Withered stumps of time - age rings, memories can't be forgotten, rape victims
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
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
Hurry up please, it's time - biological clock, pressure on women
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
We who were living are now dying - religion, Jesus gives life, now there is no Jesus
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
If there were on,y water amongst the rock
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
By this and this only, we have existed - connections, unreal, synthetic cities
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The wasteland - TS Eliot
Datta - give, dayadvham- sympathise, damyata- control
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