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… himself to death. In his first flush of freedom—he had come to Iowa from a land ruled by a military dictatorship—he … from the 1960s, “like the locked antlers of moose / who die on their knees in pairs.” Well-chosen words may help us … the language and the depths of his or her soul to discover points of correspondence with the Other. Finding out who he …
… $3.00. Mark Twain’s Notebook. Prepared for publication with comments by Albert Bigclow Paine. New York: Harper and … the authentic historian of the American frontier, he is, also, an authentic spokesman for man wherever he lives … the “Notebook” for piecing it out: “When my physical body dies my dream body will doubtless continue its excursions …
… pry off the garbage can lid; but then the chance may not come again. So instead you notice how distressed her call is … than you’d imagined. The ants are everywhere, of course, coming and going at all the openings; still, you pluck up …
… Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man. Two poets, Wystan II. Auden and … individualist, sceptical of the feasibility of Communist ideals. “Hugh M’Diarmid,” the pseudonym of Christopher Murray … from the Spring branches The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms. Such passages as this, which may raise …
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… transport trucks were left to burn. My dead Uncle Paul steals oranges in the night groves there, just as he did when I … it to decrease the effects of RPG attacks. While the soldiers on foot headed toward the police station, the … boulevard connecting two traffic circles. We must have completed this circuit about eight times that sunny day …
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… of the modern narrative poem. Critics have carefully studied the book’s innovative use of speech rhythms (Frost’s … as Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. Frost’s commitment to narrative verse (as well as to rhyme and … overlay it with conventional lyric effects, Frost counterpoints it with “the sound of sense.” This famous concept, …