The dark house of E.A. Robinson : psychological themes in the poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson.

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The \tremendous force of analogy\" with which Henry aims achieved confrontation of fissured aspects of personality and of culture \"in the depths of the house of the past of that mystical other world that might have flourished\" is conspicuous in the poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is more than the mere dynamic of image-making which characterises much poetry of the present age. It is infused in Robinson's attitude to life his psychological realism his implied values and his primary symbols. Like the sailor in \"Lost Anchors\" the poet made of his 'legend' 'a manifest Analogy.' (p.578) The Robinsonian Analogy is a predominantly psychological structure proportioned according to the poet's main interest - human nature - and essential aim - inferential disclosure of inner realities. It is a dark house in which the occupants live and die psychic lives and psychic deaths. It is not unlike James' \"house on the jolly corner\" the archetypal analogy of man and house of which Spencer Bry

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