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The Faculty of Useless Knowledge Yury Osipovich Dombrovsky ( Russian : Ю́рий О́сипович Домбро́вский ; 12 May [ O.S. 29 April] 1909 – 29 May 1978) was a Russian writer who spent nearly eighteen years in Soviet prison camps and exile.
The useless paddles are idly dropped, Like a sea-bird's wings that the storm had lopped, And crossed on the railing one o'er one, Like the folded hands when the work is done; While busily back and forth between The spider stretches his silvery screen, And the solemn owl, with his dull " too-hoo,'" Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
"To Sleep" is a poem by William Wordsworth.Here, the speaker is someone who suffers from insomnia.He lies sleepless all night, wanting to be able to sleep, but he cannot. He imagines a flock of sheep leisurely passing by, one after o
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... "A Useless Death" is a poem by Patti Smith, published as a chapbook in 1972. [1]
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Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
A Stanford University study last year found that ChatGPT’s latest version, GPT-4, was answering a basic math question correctly just 2.4% of the time after previously answering it correctly 97.6 ...
8. Useless Things. The ultra rich are also known to spend tons of money on things that are completely useless. Case in point: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spent a whopping $42 million to build a ...