 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, 10 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momendy was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst 20 Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding... | |
 | Barry Spurr, Lloyd Cameron - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 332 pages
...sea'. Coleridge's dramatic opening of this paragraph powerfully changes the key of the piece: But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! Savagery and the demonic are introduced here in almost lurid terms, yet they are combined with a continual... | |
 | Lee Spinks - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 212 pages
...pre-cultural forces as the 'savage place' of nature resists its enclosure within man-made structures: But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants... | |
 | Francis Moraes, Debra Kita - Social Science - 2003 - 146 pages
...incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a uaning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Art - 2003 - 436 pages
...'chaunted' rather than 'chanted', and that Wordsworth here recalls a similar rhyme in 'Kubla Khan': 'A savage place! as holy and enchanted | As e'er beneath...was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!' (ll. i 3-i 5)? The conflation in Wordsworth's allusion of two Coleridgean sources, one stressing a... | |
 | Lee Spinks - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 200 pages
...pre-cultural forces as the 'savage place' of nature resists its enclosure within man-made structures: But ohl that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn coverl A savage placel as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing... | |
 | Robert A. Heinlein - Fiction - 2004 - 328 pages
...dope dreams: And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething — Coleridge must have followed that route and reached the Singing Waters. No wonder he felt like... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 248 pages
...don't know why. As the poem continues, other equally mysterious but fascinating images follow: But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! interest of the lines. Then no sooner has it usurped the description and caught our fascination than... | |
 | John C. Hampsey - Philosophy - 2004 - 236 pages
...poet's imagination does not elide back on itself but rather follows where paranoic vision leads: But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover! (1l. 12-16) the subtitle—"A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment"—precisely because he feared... | |
 | Lynne Kelly - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 282 pages
...coincidence? There the two magnificent and proud statues of Lord Buddha stood until so wantonly destroyed. A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath...was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! Coleridge saw the destruction of the Buddhas by the Taliban. He heard the wailing of the women so suppressed... | |
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