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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.
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]
The poem’s writing process began in the second half of 1796. [7] [8] In its earliest form, the work existed under the title “Description of a Beggar”. [7]A part of the text, which was originally situated after sixty-six lines of today’s version of “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, was removed from the poem and made into a separate work, “Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch”. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
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Many parents list special diaper disposal devices among the top most useless baby products. They're not super cheap to start with, often costing upward of $100, and the need to keep buying refill ...