...in one of those great affairs of the earth. He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life—of vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him with...crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles. There was a...

...accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth. He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life...crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles. There was a...

...providing a truth to reality beyond the statistical superficialities of our time. 3 Death and War //IT ±le had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life —...conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire. . . . But awake he had regarded battles as crimson blotches on the pages of the past."1 In these confessional...

...by the shattering encounter just noted. In his adolescent daydreams of battle, such affairs had been "vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him...peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess" (Chap. 1). Notably absent in such vague imaginings is any sense of the specifics of death. Only when...

...irony, still envelope us in a universe of willhe-won't-he personal achievement and heroic possibility: "In visions, he had seen himself in many struggles....peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess. . . . His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures, extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds."7...

...the war because of his romance with "Greeklike struggle": he imagines himself as a "Homeric" hero. "He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life...peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess" (Crane, The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Stories, pp. 13, 14). 59. George's Mother, p. 66. 60....

...about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth. He had of course dreamed of battles all of his life — of vague and bloody conflicts that had...crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles. There was a...

...protagonist in The Red Badge of Courage (1885), Stephen Crane's classic novel about the Civil War: He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life...secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess.... His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds.190...

...vague childhood memory. A purple patch sums up the distance from the Iliad that Henry thinks he enjoys. But awake he had regarded battles as crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles. . . . He had...

...In visions he had seen himself in many struggles. He had imagined people secure in the shadow of hi? eagle-eyed prowess. But awake he had regarded battles...crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and hign castles. There was a...