The gay man sighs over the "fierceness" of black women.
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"The world today is very conservative," he sighs over the phone.
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It has its own instinct, a subtle weightingThat pulls it round in a rich curve of motion;And when the steel, fined to a creepy edge,Rips and rings through the stalks, and the swath sighs over,And the cropped circle widens at each stroke,What a singing power flows from the hands!
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To the east are the Modern History Faculty (formerly the Indian Institute building), and the Bridge of Sighs over New College Lane which is part of Hertford College. Further south on the east side is All Souls College, a college with Fellows but no undergraduate students. To the west at the southern end are the Radcliffe Camera and the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the main church of the University, on the High Street. The southern end of the street, by the junction with the High Street, has been pedestrianised, with a pavement, since 1973.
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For much of the novel Nat sighs over the slim, virginal blonde like a love-struck adolescent, while showing little or no interest in women of his own race. Issues of class divided readers as well. While the white slaveowners in the novel, especially the wealthy ones, are represented as generous, courteous, and basically decent, poor whites are held up to ridicule as simpletons and deviants. Turner and his supporters (particularly the scene-stealing, scenery-chewing madman Will, who many readers saw as a thinly disguised version of black rock and roll pioneer Little Richard) are caricatured as disturbed, monstrous figures.
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However, there is significance in the difference between what the speaker has just said of the two roads, and what he will say in the future. According to Lawrance Thompson, Frost's biographer, as Frost was once about to read the poem, he commented to his audience, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem—very tricky," perhaps intending to suggest the poem's ironic possibilities. p. 73 Thompson suggests that the poem's narrator is "one who habitually wastes energy in regretting any choice made: belatedly but wistfully he sighs over the attractive alternative rejected." Thompson also says that when introducing the poem in readings, Frost would say that the speaker was based on his friend Edward Thomas.
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Examination Schools, Oxford Bridge of Sighs at Oxford Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet (21 December 1835 – 7 November 1924) was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation. He is best remembered for his work at Oxford for Oxford Military College as well as the University, notably: the Examination Schools, most of Hertford College (including the Bridge of Sighs over New College Lane), much of Brasenose College, ranges at Trinity College and Somerville College, and the Acland Nursing Home in North Oxford. Much of his career was devoted to the architecture of education and he worked extensively for various schools, notably Giggleswick and his own alma mater Brighton College. Jackson designed the former town hall in Tipperary Town, Ireland.
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In 1968, in the shadow of the Prague spring, he wrote the despairing poem "Believe in the future" (相信未来 xiangxin weilai), which spread like wildfire among the red guard generation: :When spider webs seal my stove without mercy :When ember smoke sighs over sad poverty :I spread out the despairing ashes stubbornly :And write with fair snowflakes "believe in the future" (transl. Michelle Yeh, Other noted poetry from the period, circulated widely in samizdat fashion, includes Beijing 4:08 PM, about the melancholy of the sent-down youth generation youth, leaving their homes for working in the countryside, and Three songs on fish, which captures the perplexity of the youth. His pen name Shi Zhi (index finger) became a byword among the Red Guard youth. In 1978, amid a brief cultural thaw, Bei Dao and Mang Ke, editors of the poetry magazine Jiantian (Today), published some of Guo's poetry.
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