Literature was supposed to give nothing to the knowledge. ... It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... Such poetry, then, is lies and may be an imitation, but it is not an imitation of any truth and therefore must be condemned. ... In Book II he claims that "a young man must not be allowed to hear that he does nothing strange when he commits the most shocking offenses" (Republic, II, p25). ...

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(Song, p. 4) Note that this connection is simply made through lying in the grass and listening to ambient sounds, not through forcing song or voice to fill what isn't really empty in the first place. This is the first key connection between Whitman and Rilke's ideal of the self, as Rilke also believed that humans had to stop focusing on what we think the world is, and start noticing the truth: Yes, the springtimes have needed you. ... Whitman mentions on p. 47 of Song of Myself, Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid. . . ....

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• Grade Level: High School

A critic has said that 'A theme which dominates Larkin's poetry is that desire is ultimately unobtainable' Discuss two or three of Larkin's poems in the context of this statement. In your answer you should consider: - The various forms of desire that Philip Larkin explores - The conclusions that...

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There are a few things to note about this guy, since he's pretty revealing in the way he goes about this poem. ... The Realist When you start a poem with "If I should die," then you're already confronting a cold, hard truth that most people would rather not think about. ...

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That's all, nothing else... That's all, nothing else... Only this, and nothing else (30). ... It's just the wind and nothing else!... He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). ...

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Indeed, expressing her own failure to emulate and to equal the language of nature, Dickinson indicates a profound reverence towards it but at the same time her feeling of inadequacy masks a deeper awareness of certain truths and meanings, precious like jewels, and of the fact that her high form of expression can hide them: the metaphor "Depths of Ruby" links, as in other poems, jewels with flowers (thus, with poems), in whose deep cup are concealed the precious and "undrained" depths. "That certain truths must remain unspoken is a roundabout way of saying that one know...

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