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... answer , an accurate answer isn't possible : a writer writes , period . The rest is mystery , as the saying is . A man knows how to write and he wants to write , or he must , and so he writes . The forms vary , but it comes to the same ...
... answer , an accurate answer isn't possible : a writer writes , period . The rest is mystery , as the saying is . A man knows how to write and he wants to write , or he must , and so he writes . The forms vary , but it comes to the same ...
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... answer . 3. What is the purpose of the comments on children's toys ( column b , lines 23-29 ) ? 4. Reread the selection from column b , line 29 , to the end . According to these lines , what provides the only true poetic inspiration ...
... answer . 3. What is the purpose of the comments on children's toys ( column b , lines 23-29 ) ? 4. Reread the selection from column b , line 29 , to the end . According to these lines , what provides the only true poetic inspiration ...
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... answer . Mezzo Cammin 1. What was the speaker's youthful aspiration ? Why has he been unable to fulfill it ? Has he completely abandoned his efforts to do so ? Prove your answers with lines from the poem . 2. What effect does the word ...
... answer . Mezzo Cammin 1. What was the speaker's youthful aspiration ? Why has he been unable to fulfill it ? Has he completely abandoned his efforts to do so ? Prove your answers with lines from the poem . 2. What effect does the word ...
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BERNARD MALAMUD | 20 |
THE NOBEL PRIZE 27 | 64 |
RALPH ELLISON | 75 |
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Agapito AMANDA American asked Aylmer Batman Bernice boat called captain Copyright CREATIVE RESPONSE dance dark day-bed dead death Deerslayer door DOUGLASS Dreiser E. B. White E. E. Cummings EXPLORATION eyes face father feel girl Glass Menagerie hair hand Harpers Ferry HARRY head heard horse JOHN BROWN Kiowas knew laughed LAURA light literary lived looked Marjorie Mary MARY WARREN mean mind MISS MCCUTCHEON mother Negro ness never night Pepé play poem poet poetry Prudencio de Pereda Pulitzer Prize Reprinted by permission Robert Hayden seemed sitting slave sound stand stood story T. S. Eliot talk tell things thou thought tion took trees turned voice W. H. Auden walked words WOZZECK writing young