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        <title><![CDATA[What are Franklin's Thoughts on the Utility of Others? How does he use...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are Franklin's Thoughts on the Utility of Others? How does he use others? Does he feel that using others requires justification?  ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Although Franklin's style was part of the Age of Reason, I would argue...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although Franklin's style was part of the Age of Reason, I would argue that his subject matter began to cross over into Romanticism.  Stylistically, Franklin is scientific.  He holds to the rhetoric of the patriot and politician in most of his writings, avoiding the superfluous detail and emotion that would become such a part of the Romantics' work.However, Franklin spoke about improving human existence and expressing individuality.  His...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:05:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Franklin was hoping to attain moral perfection.  He states, &quot;I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Franklin was hoping to attain moral perfection.  He states, &quot;I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into.&quot; This is keeping with Franklin's nature of self-improvement.  However, he soon realizes that as soon as he believes he has mastered one fault, another arises to confound him.  Ultimately, his plan is to create a chart whereby he can begin to monitor his progress from one virtue...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin's writing style was clear and had appeal to many...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin's writing style was clear and had appeal to many people, but it is not Romantic. Franklin is smack dab in the middle of the Age of Reason, or Enlightenment, when scientific observation and critical reason were paramount (see the eNotes article &quot;Enlightenment,&quot; linked below). Whereas the Romantics believed that the individual could attain oneness with God through nature, writers during the Age of Reason either...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Ben Franklin's writing style closely resemble the style of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Does Ben Franklin's writing style closely resemble the style of the American Romantics?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:49:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the &quot;Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin&quot;, what did Franklin...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the &quot;Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin&quot;, what did Franklin hope to achieve through his list of thirteen virtues?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:45:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Last Confession" is a love song about the tension between body and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Last Confession" is a love song about the tension between body and soul, but also about the different perspectives two lovers can bring to love and sex.

The first two stanzas speak of a bitter irony. When the narrator meant to give her soul, she found only pain. When she thought she was giving only sex, the lover thought she gave her soul, due to the physical passion.

The last two stanzas establish a comparison. They speak of what will...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:12:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the poem "A last confession", written by W.B.Yeats means?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the poem "A last confession", written by W.B.Yeats means? Thank you for your answer]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:33:24 PST</pubDate>
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