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		<title>Don Juan (Canto I — Selected Excerpts)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In witty ottava rima, Byron’s “Don Juan” swaps epic heroics for satire — a comic anatomy of desire and hypocrisy.]]></description>
		
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		<title>So, We’ll Go No More a Roving</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A tender farewell to excess, Byron’s lyric accepts time’s limits so that love may last.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sound of the Trees</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In “The Sound of the Trees,” Frost turns ambient rustle into the cadence of decision, where thought itself becomes the poem’s action.]]></description>
		
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		<title>After Apple-Picking</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Between labor and dream, “After Apple-Picking” drifts toward sleep, fusing sensuous detail with questions of desire and mortality.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fire and Ice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Frost’s “Fire and Ice” weighs desire and hate as forces of destruction, distilling apocalypse into nine lines of icy wit.]]></description>
		
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