and silver light‚ The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light‚ I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I‚ being poor‚ have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. main William B Yeats (1865-1939) From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood‚ Because a fire was in my head‚ And cut and peeled a hazel wand‚ And hooked a berry to a thread;
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Summary of the Poem Stanza 1 .......Old men feel out of place in a land where everything heralds new life: young men with their nubile women‚ singing and cooing birds‚ spawning salmon and mackerel. Throughout the summer‚ animals and fish bring forth new generations. When life is busy reproducing itself‚ it neglects old men‚ whose bodies are nothing but monuments of what used to be--although their intellects do not age. Stanza 2 .......An old man is little more than wrinkled‚ drooping skin hanging
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No‚ I don’t completely agree with this statement. In the first text‚ the weather was described to be quite violent because the wind outside was very strong such that the occurrence of ‘snails being blown across the patio like sailboats’ was to happen. Similarly‚ the weather in the second text is described to be powerful in the terms of the wind (‘shrieking wind’; ‘Wind slung Quoyle’). Although I do believe that in the second text the wind is more forceful and dangerous as the winds has direct contact
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invest heavily in sugar refineries‚ controlled 80% of the Malaysian sugar market with production of 1.5 million tonnes‚ equivalent to 10% of world production‚ and so earned his nickname "Sugar King of Asia". In 1971‚ he built the first Shangri-La Hotel‚ in Singapore. His first foray into Hong Kong property was in 1977‚ when he acquired a plot of land on the newly reclaimed Tsim Sha Tsui East waterfront‚ where he built the second hotel‚ the Kowloon Shangri-La. In 1993‚ his Kerry Group acquired a 34.9%
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What do you find most striking about the poem Kubla Khan?’’Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.’’ - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this essay I am going to discuss one of the most famous and very striking poem Kubla Khan which was written by Coleridge. The poem is about the nature of creativity. Coleridge describes the dome of pleasure which he sees in his dream while he is opium- induced. While he
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As we live in this new era‚ Internet is being used by many people nowadays for different reasons and for different situations. let us define first what is Internet‚ Internet is the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks‚ on which end-user services‚ such as World Wide Web sites or data archives‚ are located‚ enabling data and other information to be exchanged according to thefreedictionary.com . We truthfully use the Internet daily for different reasons‚ it can
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Hersh Patel AP English 14 September 2003 Commentary on Stanley Fish Article "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One" Stanley Fish‚ in his inductive essay "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One"‚ argues that the process of "distinguishing" certain "features" of an object follows "the act of recognition". Fish offers such conclusions from a short anecdote‚ which illustrates an analytical response of a group of students to five names he writes on a board. The students‚ who focus on Christian
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peculiar feeling. You never know when you’re going to feel it. It sneaks up on you‚ and then it’s there. There is no anticipating awe‚ no planning‚ no preparation for it. If you try to anticipate awe‚ you often don’t feel it. Our imagination can always be more extravagant than the world. We imagine how we should feel about something‚ and when that feeling doesn’t come to fruition we feel disappointment. Awe is the feeling of the world surprising us. No matter how dull and dreary you might think the
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faces today‚ we must find aggressive ways to bring in new businesses to our county. Definition of Unemployed In order to understand how to solve a problem‚ you must actually identify how and why a problem exists. Unemployment data is calculated by counting the number of people that does not have a job but is actively looking for work in the past 4 weeks. Workers who have been laid off but are expecting to
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solving a quadratic equation you are looking to get the roots/solutions/zeros or x-intercepts. There are many different methods. Those methods are‚ graphing using tables‚ factoring‚ square root method‚ completing the square‚ and quadratic formula. The two that I find the easiest are factoring and completing the square. This is how you would use these two methods. When using factoring to solve a quadratic equation you must set it to zero before you do anything else. Then you find the products of the
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