... story, however, show no restraint in collecting the berries, even despite the sense of guilt suggested by the "burn[ing] plate of eyes" that watches the children as they continue. A measure of the berry's grasp on the children is the statement that they disregarded pain, only to continue gathering. The speaker recognizes his failure to restrain his temptation when he alludes ... to Bluebeard, the fairy tale character who could not restrain from murdering his wives. Additionally, the use of slant rhymes throughout the poem reflects the speaker's lack of control over temptation. At the se...

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... of the two are intertwined historically because the literary canon has taken on a similar nature to the biblical canon. The word originates from kanon' a Greek word meaning instrument of measure and has developed to connote a list of important authors and their works, concerned with sorting the "orthodox from the heretical- . If this metaphor is applied to the literary canon ... . The canon was rather a result of "concurrence of norms and standards-. The contention has been somewhat dispelled by the present aim to open the canon', allowing more texts the opportunity for recognition and r...

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