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Symbolism in saying that a grove, in the agitation of a storm, cannot be delineated from its picture in water

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What do the saint, the angel, the musician and the sandalwood refer to in Mallarmé's poem Sainte?

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What does this paragraph of "An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth mean?

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What did "Moloch" represent in Allen Ginsberg´s poem "Howl"?

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What is the story behind the hierogram on the Isle of Thorns in A Game of You?

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Does the poem 'In Just' (e. e. cummings) allude to innocents being led astray by the devil?

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What is the significance of "southern" in Tagore's poem "A Hundred Years From Now"?

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Who does the cat represent in Animal Farm?

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Far from the Madding Crowd: "sexual symbolism intended to cock a snook at Victorian prudery"?

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Symbolism in the final lines of Yeats' Song of Wandering Aengus

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