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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Poem 'Shakespeare'

Can u explain thispoem by Matthew Arnold
  

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"Shakespeare" Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

  • "Shakespeare" Others abide our question.
  • Thou art free.
  • We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
  • For the loftiest hill, That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality: And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at.
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"Shakespeare"

Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill,
That to the stars uncrowns his majesty,
Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea,
Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place,
Spares but the cloudy border of his base
To the fo

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