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Who are considered the greatest poets in history?
Favourite answer:Obviously the list of all-time greatest would vary according to who is being asked. The wide majority of native speakers of English cannot read Chinese, so they aren't able to understand or appreciate Chinese poetry. If your native language is French, it only stands to reason that you'd elevate French poetry above Russian. The same is true for speakers of German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and every other language. How might one go about ranking the poets of Ancient Greece against those of Persia or Rome? Language is mankind's greatest invention. There's never been anything that has come even remotely close to having the kind of impact on human civilisation that language has. Ever. It ought to be noted that it's more about the quality of a poem itself than it is about the poet's work as a whole. There are some wonderful poets out there who are known for a select poem or two who don't have an enormous body of work to their credit. That being said, I think a list of some of the most revered poets who composed in English would have to include:
Many of the Romantic poets (Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth)
William Blake
Robert Browning
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Walt Whitman
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Why do black people act like they are the only people that have ever been slaves.?
Virtually every civilization that has ever existed was built by slaves.
Even the word Slave originates from the word Slav, which were an Eastern European people enslaved by Spanish Muslims for centuries.
Before humans were easily able to travel the seas and reach all of the world slavery existed and during that time there was really no ethnic difference between slave owners and slaves. Indians enslaved indians, Chinese Enslaved Chinese, Even Nativ Americans enslaved each other.
And why dont black people understand that they ended up enslaved because they were sold out by their own people. White Europeans would go to Africa to trade with tribes, one of the things they traded for were slaves. Tribes would literally go out and capture people from other tribes and take their freedom from so they could trade with the europeans who would then bring them to the US and Europe to sell.
And while every black person in this country is running around calling white people racist they seem to forget that over 320,000 WHITE Northern Soldiers will killed in a war that made it possible for a white republican president to liberate like 4 million slaves in the USA. Also, today there are still countless black people still enslaved but ironically most of them are in Africa while we made it illegal a long time ago.
Every race has been oppressed and enslaved but black people are the only ones still hung up on it and acting like the world owes them something
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Did Hitler need to work on logistics a lot more before Barbarossa ?
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Did Anne frank deserve what she got lol ?
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What’s the single most important issue the world needs to address?
Favourite answer:Global climate crisis. Even the (the reason for the) Covid/Corona crisis is linked to it. And both issues are linked to our market economy that is based on the insatiable demand from humans for resources (those we need and don't need, but absolutely want to have, e.g. for status and social comparison with other people) without any care for other beings in the future and where people feel more entitled to things than ever.
Humans want ever more ever faster..but not all resources grow at the same speed as human greed.
Also war is linked to that human problem.
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A Danish party wants to record the religion of would-be citizens. Should it go further and seek a ban on immigration from certain countries?
As the Danish People's Party rightly says, being Muslim raises fundamental problems with living a Danish life.
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Who is your favorite “underrated” historical figure?
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Why were the American Indian people so lousy at fighting?
Was there any particular reason why the indigenous people of North America were so awful at fighting battles and wars? Pretty much every major war against the Europeans they got wrecked. At the beginning there were many millions of them but maybe a couple thousand Europeans. Even if they were behind technologically why did they always lose with superior numbers?
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Know any good books a woman in her 30s might like?
Favourite answer:I wish I knew more about your tastes in other entertainment, so I could tailor my suggestions.
I'm sitting next to a bookcase, so I'll just jot down the titles of stuff that isn't ancient that I liked.
The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Marsh King's Daughter, Karen Dionne
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Misery, Stephen King
Dragon Keeper, Robin Hobb
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Cryptonomicon, Steal Stephenson
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
Those last two are long and will hold you a good while.
This is a fairly good mix of all the genres I buy in print. (I read others digitally, but they're not sitting in plain sight.) You've got mystery, thriller, science fiction, post-apocalyptic, fantasy...
You're probably noticing that a lot of these became movies, and that's always a good sign, even if the movie wasn't good. The book tends to be substantially deeper and richer than the movie. So don't set one in the "no" pile just because you've seen the movie. In the case of Game of Thrones, having seen it will help you keep straight who is who.
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when and why did 'the Illuminati" dissolve and did they then go undercover in the form of "the Freemasons"? what about the Templars?
Favourite answer:In the late 1700's, there were several groups in Bavaria that had secret rites, including the Illuminati. The Prince-Elector thought they where conspiring against him. Some of these groups actually were, although the Illuminati was not one of them. Still he banned them all in 1783, and outlawed them in 1785.
The Freemasons are a social club for men, and have nothing to do with the Illuminati. The Templars warrior monks during the Crusades, and were gone hundreds of years before the Illuminati began (1776). They are a completely different thing.
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Is China a superpower?
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Did I receive clemency from the parole board?
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