"What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!"
— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Bradbury & Evans
Date
1854
Metaphor
"What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!"
Metaphor in Context
"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!"
(p. 161)
(p. 161)
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Reading
Citation
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times ed. George Ford and Sylvère Monod (New York: Norton, 1990). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
04/18/2011
