... if he were "In another world". Thoughts of his own death constantly occupied his mind, perpetuated by the abject fear and the sense of unreality he was feeling. In his analysis of a slave ship, in 1829, the Reverend Robert Walsh pointed out that "The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 ... American literature. Hayden prefers to exclude their point of view in order to permit audiences to fill this empty space with their own imagination and knowledge. In fact he defines poetry as: "The illumination of experience through langua...

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... . Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? Children will always be afraid of the dark and men will always shudder at what they ... closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."...

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