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… were lost in a blinding storm a few feet from the hut, Who died without any struggle, who perished without sound. We … bronze memorial plaques atone: For it is not that we have died in war, but died ingloriously, Not that we have gone into the dark, but …

… discussion turns on the poem’s meaning and how meaning becomes lodged through metaphor, image, meter, symbol, … and women were women and critics were critics. There may also have been an exact hour in the seventeenth century … everything. There have been sophisticated and revealing studies on these subjects, but in the classroom what you tend …

… the water dripping from the berries and from the young bodies beside the pond, the birds quarreling outside, the … young man of twenty or so, passed by and beckoned to him. “Come along, I’ll show you a thing or two,” he whispered. … upon the sawdust, kissing and clutching at each other’s bodies—his cousin Zofja and the handsome young officer …

… too subtle to be named changing before my eyes across what also changes before my eyes without my seeing, like the … you and an open door you cannot enter, where the ones you come for, look for, and even think you see inside it looking …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … of daily life. Somehow this had slipped his mind, and if he died now—but of course he would not die now, he was very sick but it was all right, he was young …