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Page 33
... reason and the heart . These problems are resolved , of course , but only through the process of the poem itself . The fourth and eighth stanzas in " To a Waterfowl " are not pious platitudes ; they are the efforts of the mind , and ...
... reason and the heart . These problems are resolved , of course , but only through the process of the poem itself . The fourth and eighth stanzas in " To a Waterfowl " are not pious platitudes ; they are the efforts of the mind , and ...
Page 81
... reason to do so- because there is no reason . Just as the active and conscious mind accepts sleep , so should it submit to a final relaxation . Only the gauche intellect , anxious in the midst of the Nature which has produced and ...
... reason to do so- because there is no reason . Just as the active and conscious mind accepts sleep , so should it submit to a final relaxation . Only the gauche intellect , anxious in the midst of the Nature which has produced and ...
Page 90
... reason : arguing for equity and justice even while maintaining a wary eye toward what he considered to be dangerous concentrations of power . Bryant realized , as every experienced publicist must , that the ambiguities and ...
... reason : arguing for equity and justice even while maintaining a wary eye toward what he considered to be dangerous concentrations of power . Bryant realized , as every experienced publicist must , that the ambiguities and ...
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