Word: passionately
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Throughout his speech, Mr. Darrow showed that he was not dealing with crimes of passion and in closing, be stated that no machinery of law would ever be able to stop them. The natural conclusion as to whether capital punishment should be enforced or not was left to the listener
...action; Mr. Robinson in terms of reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand, of the medieval story-tellers...
...this blind passion is itself one of the reasons why the original version is so moving. Does Mr. Robinson, apparently discarding it, and retelling the story in the terms of modern sensitivity succeed in making his account equally moving and convincing? This is the important question the reviewer must...
...overcome. But this the very introspection and sensitivity with which he has invested Tristram and Isolt make them unreal. They move behind veils, they are half hidden in a midst. Not always, of course; occasionally the mist lifts, the characters appear, and we feel the intensity of their passion...
...uses a large number of feminine endings with a very special effect, his verse is never monotonous, and its melody with a peculiar, slightly remote, cadence of its own, is nearly always delightful. "Tristram" possesses these qualities and many others. And, if the characters are not individuals, this passion that transforms them is cunningly and movingly described; the poem is admirable in construction and expression. No one but Mr. Robertson could have written it. And that is high praise