Poetry for Students, Volume 35

shrineless pilgrimage of Childe Harold who searches relentlessly for he is not sure what. While Shelley—even in Byron’s presence ...

In an echo of the passage from Canto III, vi, Harold identifies ‘‘The Beings of the mind’’ as being of more than clay. They are ...

mind, nourished by traditional values, which both Byron and Manfred repudiate. Childe Har- old tentatively asserted the supremac ...

By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very soon may know it; And in this scene of all-confessed inanity ...

But ‘‘why then publish?’’—There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the World grows weary. I ask in turn,—Why do you play at c ...

single tone of voice, would be to edge toward consistency, and consistency is more than the hobgoblin of small minds; it is madn ...

showing how Romantic writers shared certain themes and styles. Although Byron is not the focus of the book, it does provide valu ...

The Dead ‘‘The Dead’’ (1983), by the American poet Susan Mitchell, is a descriptionof an episode in the exis- tence of people wh ...

BA in English literature. She subsequently gained an MA from Georgetown University and an ABD from Columbia University. She has ...

lessening their individual burden of cares in this way. Equally, perhaps it is through the cleansing effect of the river, which ...

shown invading of the attics of the houses of their loved ones who are still living and reading the letters they sent to loved o ...

this will help them to forget their earthly lives and attachments. But they are simultaneously keeping those attachments alive b ...

Here, hunger and thirst are not merely the literal hunger for food and thirst for water that sustain human beings on earth. The ...

their life’s lessons and experiences, with all their accumulated wisdom, between lives. Wiser spirits retained their memory so t ...

Orthodox tradition refer to the experience of Pur- gatory as Hades. The concept of Purgatory is also found in other religions. B ...

true of ‘‘The Dead’’) and identifies an ‘‘unabashed self-absorption’’ at the center of her work. Mitchell’s introspection is als ...

Brahman, the transcendent source of all creation. A person who dies in this state is thought not to need to reincarnate at all, ...

cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is going from death to death. Second, the impure soul goes from death to death in every secon ...

Brahmanhas passed beyond the level of time and space. It has no use for past memories or future predictions. The dead of Mitchel ...

Further Reading Dawkins, Richard,The God Delusion, Mariner Books, 2008. The biologist Dawkins’s salvo against religious belief g ...