... Tennyson skillfully applies an ethereal and spiritual element to his writing, with the imagery of a "broken chancel" and a "broken cross." This increases our affinity with Arthur, and also gives us the sense of the passing of a martyr, and something God ordained. To an almost wholly Christian audience ... us first a brief but vivid impression of market day at a country town, with the evening closing in, and then an equally vivid picture of the farmer's wife waiting suspiciously at home for his return. The tone and pace of Shanter allows for a rollocking, ballad like rhythm, which varies ...

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... still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or ... that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell Why thou ....

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... unravish"d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme The setting, as the trend is in every scene-stanza of the play poem, comes divided into an external setting_ where the metanarrator observes ... watching a silent urn relating to them more expressive stories than poetry does, they are, in a similar manner, prepared to appreciate " ditties of no tone", not with their ears, but with their "spirit". In scene-stanza 4, the narrating director stands once more confounded before the playf...

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