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In man, ambition is the common'st thing; Each one by nature loves to be a king.
AMBITION
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This is only a two lined poem. how can this Literature even come close to discribing , or trying to express the drilling and driving motion of ambition !!!
the one thing man want's is to be king. ambition is what drives a person to try. don't you get it?
everbody wants to be king, so he who is trying must do everything to beat anyone eles. otherwise their ambimtion does no exsist.
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To Jess
Less is more. Poetry leaps it doesn't dawdle like prose! A lyrical poem says in a few words what
prose may say in a paragraph. A good poet leaves it up to the reader to make his own interpretation.