Great Regulars: The speaker claims that the tramps knew

they didn't have to say anything; they assumed it would be obvious to the speaker they deserved to be splitting the wood. They would split wood because they needed the money, but the speaker is splitting the wood for the love of it. It did not matter that the tramps had "agreed" that they had a better claim.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost's 'Two Tramps in Mud Time'

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They have marched on undaunted over a path "watered" by tears, and they have trod through the sludge of "the blood of the slaughtered." The past is gloomy, but now they stand "[w]here the white gleam of our bright star is cast." Hope has now been brought alive by their valiant struggle.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: June Poet--James Weldon Johnson

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Pablo Neruda is one with the vast sludge of mediocrity, whose writings would have long passed into oblivion, instead of hoisting the poetaster into the Nobel Laureateship, had not the radical left-wing noise machine, so obtrusive in American and European art spheres, hovered around him and elevated him to a prominence which he in no way deserves.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: July Poet--Pablo Neruda

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