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... poet - the poet he aspired to be incorporates elements of Poe and Whitman , but is modeled on a Populist politi- cian : Bryan is really the American poet , till we can take the Chautauqua platform , and sing to as many . I suppose the ...
... poet - the poet he aspired to be incorporates elements of Poe and Whitman , but is modeled on a Populist politi- cian : Bryan is really the American poet , till we can take the Chautauqua platform , and sing to as many . I suppose the ...
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... poet's responsibility to move beyond the auto- biographical . Second , Plath had read Freud ; and one is often ... poet . Her work as a whole is coura- geously honest , surrealistically associational , and , in the individual poems , as ...
... poet's responsibility to move beyond the auto- biographical . Second , Plath had read Freud ; and one is often ... poet . Her work as a whole is coura- geously honest , surrealistically associational , and , in the individual poems , as ...
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... poet , to tell her where the land ends and water begins : " there is no one to tell me when the ocean / will begin . " There is no one to cat- egorize her experience , to separate day from night , dawn from dusk , order from chaos ...
... poet , to tell her where the land ends and water begins : " there is no one to tell me when the ocean / will begin . " There is no one to cat- egorize her experience , to separate day from night , dawn from dusk , order from chaos ...
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