Tematické okruhy:

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With hairy springes we the birds betray,

Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey,

Fai tresses man´s imperial race ensnare,

And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Human hair actual and symbolic (sensuous, emblematic, mock-heroic, Miltonic, murderous…) in Housman, Yeats, Pope, Herrick, Donne, Milton, Browning and M. Faber

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My mind was once the true survey

Of all these meadows fresh and gay,

And in the greenness of the grass

Did see its hopes as in a glass…

Grass and what it does (in Marvell, Larkin, Whitman, Sandburg, Frost, and Louise Glück)

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Then felt I like some watcher of the skies

When a new planet swims into his ken…

Star, moon and planet gazing in Keats, Tennyson, Sidney, Larkin, e. e. cummings and others

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The russet, crab and cottage red

burn to the sun’s hot brass,

then drop like sweat from every branch

and bubble in the grass.

Apples as a theme in Laurie Lee, Robert Frost, W. C. Williams and others

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