Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure;
In the painting, there is a plough-man, quite unperturbed, unconcerned with Icarus falling from the sky.
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Right back where we had started. We were bumping into each other In the dark.
We had resorted to primal instincts, and we had returned to an era of the past.
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Then we took it for granted. Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly mind.
This shows that we started to show neglect towards the Earth and didn't appreciate it and what it provides for us enough.
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a Zen master’s bronzy gong, calls you here, entirely, now: bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow.
This is how the dog perceives the human language, and probably its translation.
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or else you’re off in some fog concerning —tomorrow, is that what you call it?
This shows that dog's ignorance, but also innocence at the lack of forethought, and it's pure pursuit of happiness.
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Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who’s—oh joy—actually scared. Sniff the wind, then
This shows that the dog acts on impulsivity and has a short attention span.
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Students are more modest needing to leave only their splayed footprints along the shore of the page.
The students need to be more concise.
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Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points rain down along the sidelines.
This is a clear sign of annotation
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We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;
This shows that when reading literature, one must fully comprehend it, not just blankly stare at pages and flipping it.
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For years I enjoyed my duties as minstrel and that lord’s favor, but now the freehold and land titles he bestowed upon me once he has vested in Heorrenda, master of verse-craft. That passed over, this can too.
He is sad that he lost his job
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Earmonric had the mind of a wolf, by all accounts a cruel king, lord of the far flung Gothic outlands. Everywhere men sat shackled in sorrow, expecting the worst, wishing often he and his kingdom would be conquered. That passed over, this can too.
He is a cruel and tyrannical despot, ruler of barbarians, as evidenced by "Gothic." They are calling him cunning and clever with the comparison to a wolf, but also cruel.
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Walk through the house. Take nothing. Eat nothing. However, if any creature tells you that it hungers, feed it.
This line promotes selflessness and generosity, whilst still giving an air of tension in the house.
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I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
This pertains to the fact that poems could be hard to digest, with the reader being the mouse, and that it could take some time to understand it.
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I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
The meaning is that by holding a poem up to a light like a color slide, you can discern many different meanings and themes.
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