... include that which it enables him to give-and power has made him most certainly wealthy. The strength of the subject's gaze is reinforced in line 6, where it is said to have a captivating sway over all it looks upon, "gilding the object whereupon it gazeth". This ... by his blessing, constrained by his power. In his description of the subject as "a man in hue all hues in his controlling" (line 7), Shakespeare examines how double meanings help us envision the subject more accurately. If we interpret "hue" as "color", he suggestion ... which suffers like our subject with the constraining r...

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... ). This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. Firstly, the pronoun "this" does not clearly refer to either the letter itself or ... that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense of appropriate restraint in one's own writing " (Domhnall,2000). In the seventh line, mentioning the hummingbird which feeds nectar from the flower's deep cup (www.britannica.com), Emily is inviting Ms Flint to feed on these profound, hidden ... only wo...

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... both the political state and the individual soul separates reason and will (operations of the mind) from pleasure and the passions (occupations of the senses). In the doctrine of the Line the similar attributes of knowledge vs. illusion are approximated into a linear scale. Since poetry appeals to the more illusory sense perception, it is placed lower in the scale; it cannot ... the subject, merely that his observations on poetry are consonant with his over-all theory of "becoming." Aristotle says that "generally art partly completes what nature cannot bring to a finish, and partly imit...

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