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Excerpt 1: [First stanza:] I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. [Last stanza:] This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.
- From The Waking by Theodore Roethke, in Roethke: Collected Poems
Excerpt 2: [First stanza:] I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) [Last stanza:] I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
- From Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath
Excerpt 3: [First stanza:] Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. [Last stanza:] And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- From Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
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