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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PARAGRAPHS: 15, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it Last Line: An idea which leads inevitably to the reduction Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty | |||
"I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it the unique condition in which intelligence, dignity, and human happiness may develop and grow; not the purely formal liberty conceded, measured out, and regulated by the state, an eternal lie which in reality represents nothing more than the privilege of some founded on the slavery of the rest; not the individualistic, egotistic, shabby and fictitious liberty extolled by the school of J.J. Rousseau and the other schools of bourgeois liberalism, which gives us the would-be rights of all men as embodied in a State that limits the rights of each -- an idea which leads inevitably to the reduction Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' by HAYDEN CARRUTH A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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