Read this excerpt from "The Legend." Tonight, I read about Descartes' grand courage to doubt everything except his own miraculous existence and I feel so distinct from the wounded man lying on the concrete I am ashamed In this excerpt, the poet alludes to seventeenth-century French philosopher Descartes, who emphasized the power of an individual’s mind to create his own reality. By alluding to Descartes, the poet questions how individuals relate to themselves. their family. nature. their community.

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after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

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