Essays Tagged: "metaphysical world"

"A Martian Sends A Postcard Home" by Craig Raine.

en analysing "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" especially with the last two stanzas being about the metaphysical world of dreams.Raine's unusual world hypothetically assumes a future state, where Mart ... ir dreams therefore continuing- or rather beginning in this case- the theme of the subconscious and metaphysical confusion within "A Martian Sends A Postcard Home". A young child is often seen as view ...

(6 pages) 55 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

A Scratch Beneath the Surface: The Pastoral Disguise of "An Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

Keats is able to manipulate the forms into a conduit in which he conveys the greater ideals of the metaphysical world.Though the pastoral form is a dominant presence throughout, the ode form plays a ... ous morn? (35-37)This is the ultimate form of abstraction, where the speaker leaps from what is the metaphysical to what is the delusional world. There is a creation of pastoral world of happiness and ...

(10 pages) 62 1 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Supernatural Elements in macbeth

g the precise nature of that evil, whether it is subjective or objective or both, whether mental or metaphysical. (pp. 55-6)The single purpose of this study is to examine, as thoroughly as possible, t ... h the Weird Sisters are said to symbolize or represent, and to reproduce one aspect at least of the metaphysical groundwork of the drama. It presupposes that in Shakespeare's time evil was considered ...

(10 pages) 38 0 4.1 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers