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The Libersign, a political emblem of the U.S. Libertarian Party during the 1970s, features an arrow diagonally crossing the letters "TANSTAAFL". "No such thing as a free lunch" (also written as "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and sometimes called Crane's law [1]) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing.
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
One common theme is a desire for personal connection, whether the one on one connection of two friends or two lovers or a broader connection to strangers, in the face of tragedy, for example. [4] The following are examples of this: “A Step Away From Them” begins, “It’s my lunch hour, so I go / for a walk among the hum-colored / cabs.”
Other poems in the series received praise, with George Watson, in 1966, claiming that To William Wordsworth "is the last pure example that Coleridge's poetry affords of the conversation poem [...] the poem is extravagant in its very being." [80] Also, Holmes describes The Eolian Harp as a "beautiful Conversation Poem". [81]
The analogy of the bird and the boy is also evidence of the recurring theme of nature within this poem. As a poet of Romanticism, Blake puts an emphasis on nature, the subjective self and on emotions. Within this poem, the allusions to nature are everywhere referencing things such as summer, wind, blossoms, rain showers, birds and spring. [3]
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China: Jian'an poetry, a poetic movement occurring during the end of the Han dynasty, in the state of Cao Wei. China: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, a group of poets active during the late Cao Wei to early Jin dynasty era, poets incorporating the Wei-Jin Xuanxue movement.
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