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frontier settings, the second part of this thesis strives to demonstrate that there is an underlying manner
of perception presenting the thermal, hibernal and distant landscapes. Despite the separation between
different poems of similar frontier settings, the repeated manners in which their poet-narrators
apprehend selfsame frontier environments suggests that a relationship exists between the texts that is
not simply one of authorship and imagery but also one of ways of perceiving the frontier itself.
Understanding the intricacies of this relationship as its pertains to each distinct frontier setting is the
goal of the following chapters.
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