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“… because this poem directly portrays a man capable of having an ideal and, second, once he bas the ideal, of believing in it and, believing in it, of blindly devoting his whole life to it. That doesn’t always happen in our time.” 249.

“A fool with a heart and no brains is as unhappy a fool as a fool with brains but no heart. An old truth. I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.” (81)