... physical distance between the poet and swans represents the vast metaphysical gap between the mortal and the immortal In Among School Children Yeats begins with a similar duality of youth and age but moves to a more profound consideration of the metaphysical and purpose of human existence. The poem is in the form of the Ottava Rima - 8 stanzas with 8 lines in regular rhythm ... us of the mysterious power of art to capture a moment in time and immortalise it, allowing it to outlive the artist with its restricted tone, forcing order to resolve chaos, age and eternal youth and creating a &...

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... question, if mistaken procedures have extinguished lives, habitats, hopes, and brought to Nietzche's predictions of nihilism, where is the experience learning? Isn't it going back rather than forth? In Old Age (the period between pre-history and renaissance) the creation of city-states took hundreds of years, the same within theocracies, in renaissance (1500-1800) the abolition of a feudal system and ... ...

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