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  2. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    In 1948, Charles Allen wrote, "The only freedom cadenced verse obtains is a limited freedom from the tight demands of the metered line." [12] Free verse is as equally subject to elements of form (the poetic line, which may vary freely; rhythm; strophes or strophic rhythms; stanzaic patterns and rhythmic units or cadences) as other forms of poetry.

  3. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.

  4. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary - Wikipedia

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    The former, subtitled "Beowulf and Grendel", is a poem or song [5] of seven eight-line stanzas about Beowulf's victory over Grendel. The latter is a poem of fifteen eight-line stanzas on the same theme; several of the stanzas, including the first and the last, are almost identical with the first version.

  5. Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom

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    382-3 Formal conception of freedom; Buridan's Ass. 383 Idealism defines freedom. 385 Man's being is his own deed. 387 Predestination. 389-394 General possibility of evil and inversion of selfhood's place. 394 God's freedom. 396 Leibniz on laws of nature. 399 God is not a system, but a life; finite life in man. 402 God brought forward order from ...

  6. Outline of poetry - Wikipedia

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    There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed versed form. Tanka – a classical Japanese poem, composed in Japanese (rather than Chinese, as with kanshi)

  7. Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Freedom from domination was considered by Phillip Pettit, Quentin Skinner and John P. McCormick as a defining aspect of freedom. [11] While operative control is the ability to direct ones actions on a day-to-day basis, that freedom can depend on the whim of another, also known as reserve control.

  8. The Straight Mind and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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    The Straight Mind and Other Essays is a 1992 collection of essays by Monique Wittig. The collection was translated into French as La pensée straight in 2001. [ 1 ] The title essay, "The Straight Mind", was delivered to the Modern Language Association annual convention in 1978.

  9. The Philosophy of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Steiner had wanted to write a philosophy of freedom since at least 1880. [12] The appearance of The Philosophy of Freedom in 1894 [13] was preceded by his publications on Goethe, focusing on epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly Goethe the Scientist (1883) [14] and The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception (1886). [15]