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... morals ? Can we judge a poem by its moral ? How can we like a poem when it expresses a philosophy in which we don't believe ? Who has the right to say what a poem means ? Aren't all opinions equal in a democratic society , and doesn't ...
... morals ? Can we judge a poem by its moral ? How can we like a poem when it expresses a philosophy in which we don't believe ? Who has the right to say what a poem means ? Aren't all opinions equal in a democratic society , and doesn't ...
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... morality . They are haunted by a generaliza- tion : a great poem has a great moral ; to understand the poem , find the moral . And , according to some , who have no trouble recognizing their image in a mirror , the moral in the poem is ...
... morality . They are haunted by a generaliza- tion : a great poem has a great moral ; to understand the poem , find the moral . And , according to some , who have no trouble recognizing their image in a mirror , the moral in the poem is ...
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... moral motive naturally enters , and the question arises of what this amounts to . Late in his life Coleridge censured the presence of a motivating morality . In reply to an objection of Mrs Barbauld that the poem lacked a moral he ...
... moral motive naturally enters , and the question arises of what this amounts to . Late in his life Coleridge censured the presence of a motivating morality . In reply to an objection of Mrs Barbauld that the poem lacked a moral he ...
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