The next thing I notice is a play on a cliché in the following line; On the spur of a habit. ... This line is made to stand out from the rest of the stanza. ... Nicholson reached his peak in optimism when summing up the positives, be it sincere or not, in the following line; It's beautiful to breathe the sharp night air. The tone then takes a dramatic turn, and perhaps shows the depths of his distress and upset in the line; The town rolls around the century's bleak orbit. ... The factory is described as a battleship that has been washed up on the Ebb-tides ..beached...

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However, in recent times the idea that emotion rather than intellect could be the fine line between man and significantly lower forms of life has become popular. ... An emotionally intelligent person can use his or her understanding of emotion in harmony with good reasoning skills to make reasonable decisions while maintaining good relationships. ...

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Poetry and Unreality is Plato's famous attack on poetry and by extension, all forms of art which are aimed at inducing pleasure. Plato claims that poetry is two stages removed from the truth. Artists have no contribution to a society and their creations are merely representations of the reality. Hen...

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• Has Bibliography
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Plato is know for his theory of the Cave, the platonic doctrine of forms and the Divided line (Sullivan 36). ... Plato and Aristotle are just two philosophers who have tried to come up with a rational reasoning on what emotions are and if they are controlled. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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