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  2. Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch - Wikipedia

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    Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch", also known as "Old Man travelling" is a poem written by William Wordsworth. It was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads – a collection of poems created in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is estimated to have been composed either in late 1796 or early 1797. [1] "

  3. Skaufalabálkur - Wikipedia

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    Its title may be translated 'The Lay of Shaggy-Tail' [2] or 'The Poem of Sheaf-Tail'. [3] The title character is an old fox and the poem describes his final hunting trip in a mock heroic style. [3] After killing a sheep, the fox is chased by a man and a dog. He escapes but is mortally wounded. In his den, he relates the story of his life before ...

  4. Mending Wall - Wikipedia

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    Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911 "Mending Wall" is a poem by Robert Frost.It opens Robert's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, [1] published in 1914 by David Nutt, and has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature".

  5. Definition of man - Wikipedia

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    Burke's definition of man states: "Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative), separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order), and rotten with perfection". [2]

  6. Soleil et chair - Wikipedia

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    Recording in French by Vincent Planchon for Audiocité. Soleil et chair ("Sun and Flesh" in English) is a poem written by Arthur Rimbaud in May 1870. [1] The work, while being unmistakably Rimbaud, nevertheless exhibits the influence that both Romanticism and Latin writers such as Horace, Virgil, and Lucretius had on his early style. [1]

  7. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Wikipedia

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    The old man is described many times throughout as having "antiquarian" eyes. [8] Father Gonzaga: Father Gonzaga is the town priest and the authority figure of the town. He is described as having been "a robust woodcutter" before becoming a priest. Father Gonzaga suspects the old man is an imposter because he doesn't know Latin, the language of God.

  8. Flower in the Crannied Wall - Wikipedia

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    The poem uses the image of a flowering plant - specifically that of a chasmophyte rooted in the wall of the wishing well - as a source of inspiration for mystical/metaphysical speculation [1] and is one of multiple poems where Tennyson touches upon the topic of the relationships between God, nature, and human life.

  9. GOFAI - Wikipedia

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    In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. [ 5 ] Symbolic AI in the 1960s was able to successfully simulate the process of high-level reasoning, including logical deduction , algebra , geometry , spatial reasoning and means-ends analysis , all of them in precise English sentences, just like the ones humans ...