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    “Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
    Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
    And that is why their lovers are afraid
    To tell them a plain story.”
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    “I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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    “But some who this blithe mood present,
    As on in lightsome files they fare,
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    Perish, enlightened by the vollied glare;
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    Thy after shock, Manassas, share.”
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