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  2. Sonnet 73 - Wikipedia

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    The older poet may desire to "love more strong" from the younger man but feels, as 72 discloses, that he does not deserve it. This psychological conflict explains why the couplet hovers equivocally between the conclusions "to love me", which the persona cannot bring himself to ask for outright, and "to love your youth", the impersonal ...

  3. Exeter Book Riddle 47 - Wikipedia

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    masculine strong noun utterance, sentence, saying forswealg for-swelgan strong verb swallow up, consume fræt fretan strong verb devour, eat, consume, gnaw away gied giedd neuter strong noun poem, song, report, tale, utterance, saying glēawra glēaw adjective wise, discerning, prudent hē hē personal pronoun he moððe moððe feminine weak noun

  4. The Ballad of East and West - Wikipedia

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    In this poem, the border is the North West Frontier of the British Raj (which was, at the time the poem was written, on the boundary of the Raj, but is now in Pakistan), [3] but it harks back to the English/Scottish Border. The second line contains the word "lifted", a Scots term for "stolen". The fourth line contains the word "calkin", a term ...

  5. Citizenship in a Republic - Wikipedia

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    The "Man in the Arena" passage was used in a 2015 ad for Cadillac, ending with "dare greatly". [8] At the 2016 Democratic National Convention President Barack Obama cited the speech in his endorsement speech of Hillary Clinton. Lindsey Stirling's 2016 album release Brave Enough features a song titled "The Arena". The inspiration for this song ...

  6. The Village Blacksmith - Wikipedia

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    The poem describes a local blacksmith and his daily life. The blacksmith serves as a role model who balances his job with the role he plays with his family and community. Years after its publication, a tree mentioned in the poem was cut down and part of it was made into an armchair which was then presented to Longfellow by local schoolchildren.

  7. Valayapathi - Wikipedia

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    'Unbending Man'; transl. Strong Man), also spelled Valayapathi, is one of the five great Tamil epics, but one that is almost entirely lost. [1] [2] It is a story of a father who has two wives, abandons one who gives birth to their son, and the son grows up and seeks his real father. [1]

  8. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

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    Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...

  9. Sonnet 20 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.