Throughout the course of this essay I will focus specifically on three poems; "An Horatian Ode" by Andrew Marvell, "The Rose" by William Carlos Williams and The "Botticellian Trees", written again by William Carlos Williams.. ... Upon a preliminary reading of the poem, that is to say, a reading whereby a critical deconstruction is not established, one could perhaps be forgiven for the assumption that the poem has little additional subtexts or meaning other than to literally pay respect to Cromwell. ...

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Happiness Because yesterday morning from the steamy window we saw a pair of red foxes across the creek eating the last windfall apples in the rain -- they looked up at us with their green eyes long enough to symbolize the wakefulness of living things and then went back to eating -- and because this morning when she went into the gazebo with her black pen and yellow pad to coax an inquisitive soul from what she thinks of as the reluctance of matter, I drove into town to drink tea in the cafe and write notes in a journal -mist rose from the bay like the luminous and indefinite ...

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