... be in sorwe.   (16-21) The poet never adequately explains the nature of the "sorwe" which he mentions as an afterthought here. "Sorwe" seems an unlikely symptom of insomnia, but it associates the condition of the poet with that of the knight. The poet's description of the knight's condition closely resembles that of his own insomnia: Hit was gret wonder that Nature   Myght suffre any creature   To ... lady, he nevertheless can finally re-enter court life. Similarly, the very last activity which engages the poet before he falls asleep involves the mental construction of an ideal bedcha...

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... eagerly wished it to be the next day (8-9). Vainly, I tried to borrow happiness from my books in order to quell my own sadness- sorrow for the lost Lenore, the rare and radiant maiden named by angels, never again to be mentioned here on earth (9-12). The unnerving rustling ... and flutter, in stepped a striking, almost noble, raven of virtuous days of history past (37-38). He didn't show the least respect, and didn't pause for an instant. But, with the air of a lord or lady, he perched above my chamber door upon a bust of Pallas (39-40). He perched and sat there, and nothing else ... not ...

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... , Sandburg died peacefully in his sleep. His body was cremated, and the ashes were sprinkled under a granite boulder behind the three-room cottage in Galesburg (Hacker 110). Lyndon Johnson summarized the legacy of Carl Sandburg stating: "Carl Sandburg was more than a voice of America, more that the poet of its strength and Genius. He was America. We knew and cherished him as the board ... have had this inspiration (Niven). The one person that would influence him more that anybody was a man he did not meet for a long time. At eight o"clock every morning, Sandburg would watch a thin man pa...

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