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UNIT 3-POETRY  Reflect on the meaning of each of the following quotes, and what the poet may be trying to tell us about poetry: Not the assertion that something is true, but the making of that truth more fully real to us ~T.S. Elliot Hundreds of things coming together at the right moment. ~Elizabeth Bishop Poetry is life distilled. ~Gwendolyn Brooks
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What are the effects of guilt?   Contrast them to Shakespeare's approach to the topic by examining changes in Lady Macbeth resulting in her death, as well as Macbeth's attempts to protect himself and finally accepting the consequences of his deed.
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Respond to Mary McCarthy's comment that "It is a troubling thought that Macbeth, of all Shakespeare's characters, should seem the most 'modern,' the only one you could transpose into contemporary battle dress or a sport shirt and slacks". https://www.enotes.com/topics/mary-mccarthy/critical-essays/mccarthy-mary
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Moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes.

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