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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two things: first while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere turning its back on the political realm.
Quotes By Terry Eagleton
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of...
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a...
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few...
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject...
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the...
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With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a...
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Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no...
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...
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The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with...
Quotes About Age
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
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Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
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What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.