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A hot take is tha t Bishop’s “One Art” isn’t actually about like the art of losing but more about numbing one's feelings and baout hiw people lie to themselves to feel in control keep remininding themsevles to "just move one."

A hot take on The Second Coming is that it isn’t just about chaos, but about the unsettling idea that a new order replacing the old might be even more terrifying because author Yeats suggests that when systems collapse, what emerges isn’t always gauranteed to be better because it's more unpredictable.

A hot take on Ozymandias is that it’s less about the fall of one ruler and more about how all attempts at controlling legacy are ultimately pointless because Shelley suggests that no matter how powerful someone thinks they are, no one can win against the passage of time, because time stops for no one

key takeaway: I noticed that he sometimes uses enjambment eg) at the end of teh second stanza, the third stanza begins with the line, I look down... I think this part of teh stanza and the poet's structure choice shows the continuation of the speaker's father's digging, but rn he digs in flowerbeds, then he dug in potato drills, which shows that his goal of digging has changed, though the action itself didn;t.