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Fluttering ribbons - Sensual, flirtatious, Natural, Human, Earthly, material. Dream, Sleep - important in American literature, because America did not have the cultural history of other nations. In sleep, you can talk walk, kill -  dreams and sleep explain all, like the concept of God explains. Why live a life without sin, for a 100 yrs, if there is no pleasure in it? Go out and experience, learn Dark Romanticism - joys of sin. Biblical, moral in tone and grandeur of language. May pray without ever doing good May also do good without praying Stock characters - those who portray only one side of the argument - timesaving device. Anointing is an act of consecration. Personification used to achieve a sense of allegory. Allegory - when the unsaid must be said, without  too much consequence. (siezed agency)  nuomena &pheomena Perspective, context, lack of bias, unfair to judge. I understand that it makes us unable to judge ...

In vain upon that hand reclined, (trusted you in vain)  I call each plighted worth my own, (plighted worth - oxymoron; must face consequences alone) Or rising to thy sovereign mind (rising to YOUR expectations, but I cannot have any because women do not have a sovereign mind) Say that it reigns for me alone. (her fault she trusted him, his mind supposedly reigns over her alone) Since, subject to its ardent sway, (ardent sway - oxymoron since devoutly passionate but unfaithful, unstable) How many hearts were left to weep, (how many wives and lovers have been left at home, weak and alone, so you may go love another; speaking of cheating husbands in general) To find the granted wish decay, (granted wish - wedding vow) And the triumphant passion sleep! (momentary beauty, affection, devotion, excitement - "love") Such were of love the transient flame, Which by the kindling senses led, (if any sensual pleasures kindle this "love") To every new attrac...