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"For all we can gain is to give our selves pain,

When neither can hinder the other." Dryden believes that what is the point of being in a relationship when a couple is fighting they are only going to end up hurting each other by cheating or ending the relationship.

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'"Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me," Dryden believes that jealously is madness instead of an emotion most people feel when things don't turn out like they plan.

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"If I have pleasures for a friend,

And farther love in store,

What wrong has he whose joys did end" I interpret this as Dryden believing that its okay to start a relationship with the ex of his firend since their love for each other is over.

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"But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:

'Twas pleasure first made it an oath." I believe that Dryden has love and lust mixed up, lust is not love and will lead to a failed marriage .

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"When passion is decay'd?

We lov'd, and we lov'd, as long as we could,

Till our love was lov'd out in us both:" Perphaps for Dryden love does not last forever but only for a couple of years then it runs out.

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"Why should a foolish marriage vow,

Which long ago was made,

Oblige us to each other now" It seems to me that Dryden did not want to be married because he feels that a marriage vow should not control their future actions.

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Not only his actions but also his beliefs about a certain issue are infused into the work he writes.

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"The cock and the Fox" talks about the actions of Dryden as a Catholic poet that has a different opinion than most people during his time.

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Fables is different from most critics because its an arrangement of based on contrast and randomness.

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Dryden was not just a poetry writer he was also a builder because he help improve and refine the English language.

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In Fables Dryden modernized the language of ancient times .

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Poetry does not always mean using words that most readers can understand you need to increase your diction.

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Dryden did not leave several poems or comprehension from present readers.

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Dryden made a huge impact on English poetry by refining the language

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Dryden expresses his criticism by clearness what he thinks with vigor.

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Dryden may have not liked reading books and he found other instructors rather than solitary reading.

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Dryden had an appetite for knowledge which made his brain absorb anything he brushed upon

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Every page of a book shares the thoughts, stories, and ideas of an author

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Since Dryden is only mentioned in  few books he is more likely to be forgotten by readers in the present.

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Dryden did not possess the characteristics of a lover and have a passion ad perfection for his work

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Instead of being like Rhymer with his cruel criticism, Dryden was the opposite and more gentle.

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Dryden had his own unique way that he used to criticize other people's essays.

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In order to judge an author we first must walk a mile in their shoes and see their perspective .

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uring Dryden's time dramatic poems were still not properly understood.

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Dryden was the one who taught us the laws of propriety.

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John Dryden is he father of English criticism.

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"Thy brows with ivy, and with laurels bound;
But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around." Our future is unpredictable is what I am interpreting from this phrase in the poem

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"hail and farewell; farewell, thou young,
But ah too short," I think that the speaker is saying that we humans have a short life

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"When poets are by too much force betrayed." I wonder what the author means by this sentence?

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"But satire needs not those, and wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged. line." This may mean that rude people are most commonly known to use satire

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"It might (what nature never gives the young)" I think this means that in nature most animals that are young probably die early.

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While his young friend performed and won the race.
O early ripe! to thy abundant store
What could advancing age have added more? While the young friend is at the peak of his youth the old friend believes that he is aging rapidly.

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A little non dangerous learning means to step outside your comfort zone and.

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In today's society most individuals don't know that there is more to Metaphysical poetry than just drama and direct poems.

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most readers in the twentieth century don't acknowledge John Dryden and his work they prefer to that he is to be forgotten.

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most readers in the twentieth century don't acknowledge John Dr

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most readers in the twentieth century don't acknowledge

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most readers in the twentieth century don't acknowledge Johj

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If your not delighted when reading poetry you will not learn anything from it

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Most readers who don't truly understand poetry will brush pass John Dryden and won't know what he is able to do with a paper and pen.

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"Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to call my own". I believe that in the poem the speaker is talking about a friendship that has ended