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In the following essay, Scobie explores poetic imagery in The English Patient and how Ondaatje uses it to manifest the themes of fire and desire.
Stephen Scobie
In the following essay, Scobie explores poetic imagery in The English Patient and how Ondaatje uses it to manifest the themes of fire and desire.
I: A Man Falls, Burning, from the Sky
Ralph Fiennes as the English Patient in the 1996 film version of The English Patient © Tiger Moth/Miramax/The Kobal Collection/Bray, Phil
This image—arresting, violent, beautiful—occurs towards the beginning of Michael Ondaatje's...
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