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Poet: Stephen Crane
Poem: 20.
A learned man came to me once
Volume: The Black Riders & Other Lines
Year: Published/Written in 1905
Poem of the Day:
Sep 28 2002
Comment 1 of 1, added on March 12th, 2005 at 11:50 AM.
All humans wish for greater understanding of the "Big Questions"--questions such as 'Who am I', 'How did I get here', and, perhaps most importantly, 'What am I to do?' In "A learned man", Crane speaks about this need to question and understand. The learned man professes to have answers, but soon finds himself in the same position as the speaker. In the same way we may have no shortage of those who try to answer these big questions and at the same time have a shortage of good answers. True understanding eludes us.
John from Canada
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All humans wish for greater understanding of the "Big Questions"--questions such as 'Who am I', 'How did I get here', and, perhaps most importantly, 'What am I to do?' In "A learned man", Crane speaks about this need to question and understand. The learned man professes to have answers, but soon finds himself in the same position as the speaker. In the same way we may have no shortage of those who try to answer these big questions and at the same time have a shortage of good answers. True understanding eludes us.
John from Canada