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motif/childhood
49 items with this tag.
Jul 24, 2026
What Am I After All
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/the_self
concept/identity
motif/childhood
archetype/child
form/fragment
Jul 24, 2026
To Hilaire Belloc
graph/work
author/chesterton
form/lyric
concept/heroism
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/faith
motif/stars
motif/the_road
motif/moon
histref/napoleonic_wars
character/death_personified
character/hilaire_belloc
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
topos/war_as_glory
topos/night_journey_vision
motif/dance
motif/drums_and_bugles
motif/childhood
setting/london
setting/rural_england
archetype/poet_as_prophet_2
form/verse_epistle
histref/french_revolution
Jul 24, 2026
To Walter de la Mare
graph/work
author/eliot
form/terza_rima
concept/the_uncanny
concept/immortality_of_art
motif/ghosts
motif/dreams
motif/the_supernatural
motif/childhood
topos/inexpressibility
Jul 24, 2026
TO BABY BATES
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/lyric
form/song
motif/childhood
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/love_divine
concept/poverty
histref/the_bible
Jul 24, 2026
TO AN INFANT
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/lyric
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/faith
archetype/child
motif/childhood
Jul 24, 2026
TO A CHILD
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/lyric
form/epigram
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/joy
concept/innocence_and_experience
motif/childhood
archetype/child
Jul 24, 2026
Time · Tempus Fugit · Clock
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/lyric
motif/time
topos/tempus_fugit
concept/transience
form/letter
motif/the_clock
concept/memory_and_time
motif/letters_writing
concept/friendship
setting/new_england
concept/immortality
form/epigram
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/mortality
histref/the_bible
motif/seasons
motif/frost
motif/autumn
motif/memory
motif/death
concept/faith
concept/memory
motif/silence
concept/fate_and_free_will
motif/childhood
concept/eternity
Jul 24, 2026
There Was a Child Went Forth
graph/work
author/whitman
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/identity
motif/childhood
motif/nature
motif/flowers
archetype/child
concept/self_and_soul
Jul 24, 2026
THE VIRGIN’S CRADLE-HYMN
graph/work
author/coleridge
concept/love_divine
concept/faith
concept/innocence_and_experience
motif/sleep
motif/childhood
character/the_virgin_mary
character/christ
histref/catholic_church
form/hymn
Jul 24, 2026
The Terror of a Toy
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/satire
concept/satire_of_society
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/heroism
concept/paradox
concept/innocence_and_experience
motif/swords_weapons
motif/childhood
concept/common_man
topos/war_as_glory
motif/blood
motif/machine
archetype/child
form/aphorism
histref/spanish_inquisition
histref/bible
histref/christianity
Jul 24, 2026
The Soul of Man under Socialism
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/wilde
concept/individualism
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/poverty
concept/social_injustice
concept/reform
concept/satire_of_society
concept/self_and_soul
motif/money_gold
motif/rose
motif/childhood
motif/the_city
topos/golden_age
topos/world_upside_down
archetype/rebel
archetype/christ_figure
character/christ
form/essay
form/satire
form/aphorism
histref/victorian_england
histref/the_french_revolution
histref/christianity
setting/industrial_city
Jul 24, 2026
The Selfish Giant
graph/work
author/wilde
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/conversion
concept/love_divine
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/mercy
concept/humility
topos/paradise_lost
topos/locus_amoenus
topos/fall_from_innocence
archetype/christ_figure
archetype/child
archetype/innocent
motif/garden
motif/seasons
motif/winter
motif/spring
motif/childhood
motif/the_cross
motif/flowers
motif/birds
form/fairy_tale
form/allegory
histref/christianity
histref/the_bible
setting/a_garden
character/christ
Jul 24, 2026
The Persecution of Religion
graph/work
form/nonfiction
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/apologetics
concept/faith
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/paradox
concept/satire_of_society
histref/christianity
character/bernard_shaw
character/nietzsche
character/darwin
character/aristotle
concept/madness
concept/reform
concept/providence
motif/madness_2
motif/childhood
archetype/child
archetype/christ_figure
form/satire
form/literary_criticism
Jul 24, 2026
The Old Curiosity Shop
graph/work
author/dickens
topos/the_quest
topos/the_open_road
topos/memento_mori
topos/fall_from_innocence
topos/pastoral_retreat
archetype/innocent
archetype/orphan
archetype/villain
archetype/outcast_wanderer
archetype/child
motif/death
motif/the_journey
motif/the_city
motif/money_gold
motif/ruins
motif/the_grave
motif/childhood
motif/dreams
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/mortality
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/the_grotesque
concept/good_vs_evil
concept/poverty
concept/nature_vs_civilization
form/novel
form/social_novel
histref/victorian_england
setting/london
setting/rural_england
character/little_nell
character/daniel_quilp
character/nells_grandfather
character/dick_swiveller
character/the_marchioness
character/kit_nubbles
character/sampson_brass
character/sally_brass
Jul 24, 2026
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
graph/work
author/dickens
concept/memory_and_time
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/temptation
concept/conscience
concept/the_supernatural
concept/the_uncanny
concept/poverty
topos/the_double
topos/fall_from_innocence
topos/the_sleeper_awakes
archetype/ghost
archetype/double_doppelganger
archetype/great_mother
archetype/child
motif/memory
motif/ghosts
motif/winter
motif/fire
motif/light_and_dark
motif/childhood
motif/fog_and_smoke
motif/the_city
form/allegory
form/short_story
histref/christianity
histref/victorian_england
setting/london
character/redlaw
character/milly_swidger
character/william_swidger
character/philip_swidger
character/the_tetterbys
character/the_phantom
Jul 24, 2026
THE GARDEN OF BOCCACCIO
graph/work
setting/europe
concept/history
author/coleridge
topos/locus_amoenus
concept/imagination
concept/melancholy
motif/memory
motif/garden
topos/pastoral_retreat
histref/the_renaissance
histref/greek_mythology
histref/norse_myth
setting/italy
setting/a_garden
motif/childhood
concept/love_romantic
Jul 24, 2026
The Defendant
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/paradox
concept/satire_of_society
concept/the_common_man
concept/imagination
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/rationcination_detection
concept/good_vs_evil
topos/book_of_nature
topos/world_upside_down
motif/childhood
motif/the_book
form/essay
form/satire
form/aphorism
archetype/detective
archetype/child
character/edward_lear
character/lewis_carroll
character/friedrich_nietzsche
character/sherlock_holmes
concept/humility
concept/democracy
concept/beauty
concept/grotesque
concept/joy
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/self_and_cosmos
concept/class_conflict
concept/faith
concept/value_and_scarcity
topos/memento_mori
topos/pastoral_retreat
topos/golden_age
topos/sublime_in_nature
motif/death
motif/stars
motif/city
setting/london
setting/pastoral_countryside
archetype/prophet
histref/bible
histref/christianity
histref/ancient_greece
histref/medieval_england
histref/renaissance
histref/french_revolution
Jul 24, 2026
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
graph/work
author/eliot
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/faith
concept/joy
concept/childhood_and_growth
topos/memento_mori
motif/childhood
motif/fire
motif/memory
archetype/child
form/free_verse
histref/christianity
Jul 24, 2026
THE DAY-DREAM FROM AN EMIGRANT TO HIS ABSENT WIFE
graph/work
author/coleridge
concept/love_romantic
concept/exile
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
motif/dreams
motif/childhood
concept/grief_and_loss
Jul 24, 2026
THE BRITISH STRIPLING’S WAR-SONG IMITATED FROM STOLBERG
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/song
form/translation
topos/war_as_glory
concept/heroism
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/swords_weapons
motif/childhood
Jul 24, 2026
Tamerlane
graph/work
author/poe
concept/ambition
concept/pride
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/love_romantic
concept/sin_and_the_fall
motif/crown
motif/death
motif/fire
motif/childhood
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/vanitas
topos/fortunes_wheel
topos/paradise_lost
archetype/tragic_hero
archetype/tyrant
archetype/usurper
archetype/king
form/dramatic_monologue
form/narrative_poem
Jul 24, 2026
SONNET: TO THE RIVER OTTER
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/sonnet
motif/river
motif/childhood
concept/nostalgia
concept/memory_and_time
concept/childhood_and_growth
motif/memory
motif/water
setting/rural_england
Jul 24, 2026
SONNET: TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT WHEN THE NURSE FIRST PRESENTED MY INFANT TO ME
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/sonnet
concept/love_romantic
concept/childhood_and_growth
archetype/child
archetype/great_mother
motif/childhood
Jul 24, 2026
Robert Louis Stevenson
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/biography
form/literary_criticism
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/joy
concept/imagination
concept/sin_and_the_fall
concept/faith
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/heroism
concept/good_vs_evil
concept/disillusionment
topos/fall_from_innocence
topos/the_double
motif/childhood
motif/nightingale
motif/the_journey
histref/christianity
histref/puritanism
setting/scotland
archetype/double_doppelganger
character/long_john_silver
character/jim_hawkins
character/alan_breck_stewart
character/david_balfour
character/jekyll_and_hyde
character/james_durie_master_of_ballantrae
character/henry_durie
character/ephraim_mackellar
character/weir_of_hermiston
character/attwater
character/huish
character/loudon_dodd
character/prince_florizel_of_bohemia
character/skelt
concept/courage
concept/conscience
concept/creativity_and_artistic_labor
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/nostalgia
concept/vanity
concept/paganism_and_classical_revival
concept/mortality
concept/identity
concept/optimism_and_pessimism
topos/quest
topos/golden_age
topos/open_road_homecoming
motif/light_and_dark
motif/swords_and_weapons
motif/disease_and_contagion
motif/toy_theatre
setting/paris
setting/america
setting/london
setting/edinburgh
setting/south_seas_pacific_islands
archetype/child
archetype/shadow
archetype/artist
archetype/quest_hero
form/essay
form/gothic_novel
form/historical_novel
form/detective_fiction
histref/aestheticism_and_the_decadent_movement
Jul 24, 2026
Romance
graph/work
author/poe
topos/immortality_through_verse
topos/fall_from_innocence
concept/memory_and_time
concept/nostalgia
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/imagination
motif/childhood
motif/memory
motif/birds
motif/time
motif/music_and_song
form/lyric
Jul 24, 2026
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
graph/work
author/whitman
form/free_verse
form/elegy
motif/the_sea
motif/the_mockingbird
motif/birds
motif/death
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/love_romantic
motif/moon
motif/night
motif/childhood
topos/poet_as_prophet
setting/the_sea
Jul 24, 2026
On the Beach at Night
graph/work
author/whitman
form/free_verse
motif/stars
motif/night
concept/immortality
concept/mortality
motif/childhood
motif/the_sea
Jul 24, 2026
MRS. SIDDONS
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/sonnet
concept/terror_and_horror
motif/the_supernatural
concept/the_sublime
motif/childhood
motif/night
Jul 24, 2026
Great Expectations
graph/work
concept/economics
author/dickens
form/bildungsroman
form/novel
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/identity
concept/class_conflict
concept/guilt
concept/conscience
concept/unrequited_love
concept/appearance_vs_reality
concept/pride
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/innocence_and_experience
archetype/orphan
archetype/self_made_man
archetype/outcast_wanderer
archetype/crone
motif/childhood
motif/money_gold
motif/clothing
motif/fire
motif/the_grave
motif/ruins
setting/london
setting/rural_england
histref/victorian_england
character/pip
character/estella
character/miss_havisham
character/joe_gargery
character/abel_magwitch
character/jaggers
character/herbert_pocket
character/wemmick
character/mrs_joe
character/biddy
Jul 24, 2026
Autobiography
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/autobiography
concept/conversion
concept/faith
concept/memory_and_time
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/friendship
concept/paradox
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
motif/childhood
motif/memory
setting/london
histref/catholic_church
character/hilaire_belloc
character/cecil_chesterton
character/h_g_wells
character/george_bernard_shaw
character/e_c_bentley
concept/doubt
concept/imagination
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/war_and_its_cost
motif/journey
motif/the_golden_key
setting/america
setting/oxford
setting/jerusalem
archetype/pilgrim
form/apologetics
histref/first_world_war
histref/marconi_scandal
Jul 24, 2026
EPITAPH ON AN INFANT
graph/work
author/coleridge
concept/mortality
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/grief_and_loss
motif/death
motif/childhood
motif/sleep
character/death_personified
form/elegy
Jul 24, 2026
David Copperfield
graph/work
concept/economics
author/dickens
form/bildungsroman
form/novel
form/social_novel
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/identity
concept/memory_and_time
concept/social_injustice
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/class_conflict
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/the_fallen_woman
archetype/orphan
archetype/self_made_man
archetype/fallen_woman
archetype/villain
motif/childhood
motif/memory
motif/the_sea
motif/storm
motif/the_journey
setting/london
histref/victorian_england
character/david_copperfield
character/uriah_heep
character/mr_micawber
character/betsey_trotwood
character/agnes_wickfield
character/dora_spenlow
character/steerforth
character/mr_peggotty
character/little_emily
character/mr_murdstone
character/clara_peggotty
Jul 24, 2026
Christianity · Faith and Doubt · Doubt
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/lyric
concept/doubt
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/immortality
histref/christianity
histref/the_bible
motif/birds
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/providence
concept/faith
form/letter
concept/paradox
form/epigram
motif/death
motif/dawn
concept/melancholy
motif/silence
concept/self_and_soul
concept/friendship
archetype/child
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/suffering
motif/flowers
motif/food_feasting
concept/poverty
motif/childhood
Jul 24, 2026
Christmas and the First Games
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/satire
concept/imagination
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/distributism
topos/golden_age
motif/childhood
motif/money_gold
character/sigmund_freud
character/h_g_wells
character/gerald_heard
concept/common_man
concept/paradox
topos/world_upside_down
motif/fire
archetype/trickster
form/parody
Jul 24, 2026
Child Psychology and Nonsense
graph/work
form/nonfiction
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/satire
concept/imagination
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/satire_of_society
concept/critique_of_progress
motif/childhood
archetype/child
motif/moon
character/stevenson
concept/education
concept/literary_criticism_2
concept/paradox
topos/world_upside_down
motif/animals
motif/music_and_song
motif/dance
form/literary_criticism
histref/bible
Jul 24, 2026
Child · Orphan
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/letter
concept/friendship
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/faith
concept/joy
motif/childhood
archetype/child
motif/flowers
form/lyric
histref/the_bible
concept/childhood_and_growth
motif/death
motif/letters_writing
motif/home
concept/memory
setting/new_england
concept/charity
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/immortality
concept/immortality_divine
concept/death
concept/communication_and_isolation
histref/christianity
motif/birds
motif/summer
motif/food_feasting
Jul 24, 2026
Cautionary Tales for Children
graph/work
author/belloc
form/comic_verse_song
form/parody
form/poem
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/crime_and_punishment
concept/nonsense
concept/exaggeration
concept/satire_of_society
concept/vanity
motif/death
motif/animals
motif/childhood
motif/gallows
motif/fire
setting/rural_england
archetype/child
topos/memento_mori
Jul 24, 2026
Bible · Sin and the Fall · Fall from Innocence
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/lyric
histref/the_bible
concept/faith
form/letter
topos/paradise_lost
concept/friendship
concept/sin_and_the_fall
topos/fall_from_innocence
histref/christianity
concept/joy
concept/conscience
concept/providence
motif/flowers
motif/childhood
concept/guilt
motif/the_sea
form/epigram
concept/immortality
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/longing
setting/new_england
concept/self_and_soul
concept/the_sublime
motif/nature
motif/memory
concept/grace_and_redemption
Jul 24, 2026
ON the DISASTROUS SPREAD of AESTHETICISM in ALL CLASSES
graph/work
motif/sea_and_voyage
author/chesterton
form/narrative_poem
form/satire
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/satire_of_society
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/nature_vs_civilization
topos/world_upside_down
topos/fall_from_innocence
motif/dreams
motif/nature
motif/childhood
motif/flowers
archetype/child
concept/order_vs_chaos
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/vanity
concept/indolence
topos/locus_amoenus
motif/moon
motif/sun
motif/sea
motif/stars
setting/garden_2
archetype/artist
archetype/fool
archetype/wise_old_man_sage
form/comic_verse_song
histref/romantic_movement_sensibility
Jul 24, 2026
Appearance vs Reality · Beauty · Eyes and Sight
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/lyric
motif/eyes_sight
concept/appearance_vs_reality
motif/animals
motif/nature
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/identity
form/riddle
concept/beauty
concept/self_and_soul
concept/transience
form/epigram
motif/masks_disguise
concept/the_sublime
concept/imagination
motif/childhood
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/love_romantic
concept/mortality
concept/suffering_and_pain
motif/blood
motif/fire
motif/dust
motif/birds
motif/garden
concept/paradox
Jul 24, 2026
Animula
graph/work
author/eliot
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/self_and_soul
concept/mortality
motif/childhood
motif/the_window
motif/dreams
archetype/child
concept/faith
form/free_verse
histref/christianity
Jul 24, 2026
Annabel Lee
graph/work
author/poe
concept/love_romantic
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/mortality
concept/immortality
concept/melancholy
topos/love_as_religion
topos/the_unattainable_beloved
motif/the_sea
motif/death
motif/the_grave
motif/moon
motif/stars
motif/childhood
archetype/lover
archetype/innocent
form/ballad
character/annabel_lee
Jul 24, 2026
Alone
graph/work
author/poe
concept/alienation
concept/melancholy
concept/identity
concept/childhood_and_growth
concept/imagination
archetype/outcast_wanderer
motif/childhood
motif/storm
motif/sun
form/lyric
Jul 24, 2026
A Woman of No Importance
graph/work
concept/economics
author/wilde
concept/satire_of_society
concept/social_injustice
concept/sin_and_the_fall
concept/martyrdom
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/guilt
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/revenge
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/temptation
concept/class_conflict
concept/grace_and_redemption
topos/fall_from_innocence
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Jul 24, 2026
A Song About Myself
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Jul 24, 2026
A Prophecy: to George Keats in America
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Jul 24, 2026
A Moral Alphabet
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Jul 24, 2026
A Christmas Carol
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Jul 24, 2026
A CHILD’S EVENING PRAYER
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