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An ancient city of Persia northeast of modern Shiraz in southwest Iran. It was the ceremonial capital of Darius I and his successors. Its ruins include the palaces of Darius and Xerxes and a citadel that contained the treasury looted by Alexander the Great.

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Get into your groups – remember the definition of Persepolis as you go through

The poem. 1. Read it outloud (creatively if possible) 2. Explain it – (Literal before

Figurative) 3. Then the figurative…

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From “The Seafarer” an ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

The days have departed, all the presumption of earthly rule—there are no longer the kings or kaisers or the gold-givers such as there were, when they performed the greatest glories among them and dwelt in the most sovereign reputation.

Crumbled are all these glories, their joys have departed. The weaker abide and keep hold of the world..

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“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

 

About suffering they were never wrong,�The old Masters: how well they understood�Its human position: how it takes place�While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;�

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