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  2. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and "These fragments I have shored against my ruins". [6] The Waste Land does not follow a single narrative or feature a consistent style or structure. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy, and features abrupt and ...

  3. The Ruin - Wikipedia

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    Roman pool (with associated modern superstructure) at Bath, England.The pool and Roman ruins may be the subject of the poem. "The Ruin of the Empire", or simply "The Ruin", is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. [1]

  4. Lacrimae rerum - Wikipedia

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    [2] In English, however, a translator must choose either one or the other, and interpretation has varied. Those who take the genitive as subjective translate the phrase as meaning that things feel sorrow for the sufferings of humanity: the universe feels our pain. Others translate the passage to show that the burden human beings must bear, ever ...

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  6. Crossing the river by touching the stones - Wikipedia

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    Crossing the river by touching the stones [1] (simplified Chinese: 摸着石头过河; traditional Chinese: 摸著石頭過河), or crossing the river by feeling the stones, [2] touching the stone to cross the river, [3] is originally a folk saying, complete with two expressions, crossing the river by touching the stones - step steadily, then take a step; crossing the river by touching the ...

  7. Ubi sunt - Wikipedia

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    Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  8. Why 'Ruined Orgasms' Can Feel Surprisingly Good - AOL

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    If your partner is the one getting you off, they can ruin your orgasm by stopping stimulation, slowing down, or changing the type of stimulation they’re providing when you’re almost over the edge.

  9. The Ruined Maid - Wikipedia

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    The title itself has meaning; Hardy uses the word "ruin", "ruin" has an "oo" sound which is a low frequency that imitates the mood of gloom or destruction. [ 10 ] "The Ruined Maid" is a satire and full of intended irony.