Heidegger delivered the first version of “What Are Poets For?” at the end of 1946. Germany and much of Europe lay in ruins, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been reduced to radioactive ash, and the horrors of the Holocaust were coming to international light. In March of the same year, Winsto...
Henry Wriothsley,the Earl of Southampton.His works include,among others:comedies Comedy of Errors,The Taming of the Shrew,Love's Labor's Lost,A Midsummer Night's Dream,The Merchant of Venice,Much Ado About Nothing
The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short gloomy days and darksome nights, while they circumscribe our wanderings, shut in our feelings also from rambling abroad, and make us more keenly disposed for the pleasures of the social circle. Our thoughts are more concentrated; our ...
In a historical view of the contemporary literary circle, not only is the creation of the poetry, but also is the whole of literature that presented a situation of losing the capability and interest in criticism and arguments on the significant problem, which causes a constant loss of the lite...
“…[they] cannot come to the Party – which was at first a greif, but…their not coming has produced our going to them tomorrow Even’g, which I like the idea of. It will be amusing to see the ways of a French circle.”
At the top of the rise, the flowers gave way to sulfur hardpan again. Looking back, she could see the path she had crunched through the flowers begin to erase itself. For a long moment she stood still, venting heat. Crystals shattered soundlessly about her in a slowly expanding circle....
This poem reminds me of the way I'd get lost in geometrical contemplations on hot afternoons in the classroom...The point appeared in the circleAnd was not;But it was the dotThat the circle begot.The point appearsAs a circle, as it revolves...In geometry, a point has no dimension. ...
Ironically, when she is sent to the "Nelson Home," a beadhouse for the old, she soon loses such a wry manner, as Augie observes: "She was [...] to my [Augie's] eyes, having lost her distinguishing independence, weakened, mole-ish" (AM, 157). Grandma Lausch might have been kind...
create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it. their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it h...
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