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What is Universal About the Theme – that Is, What Can We All Learn from the Poem? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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What is universal about the theme – that is, what can we all learn from the poem?

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One of the great challenges to our humanity is acknowledging and overcoming our natural tendency to think less of and discriminate against people who are different than us racially, ethnically, religiously or ideologically.Despite persistent rhetoric about prizing diversity, political debates often reflect disdain and contempt for those we disagree with and prejudices of all sorts are more readily stated. James Patrick Kinney in his poem“The Cold Within” reminds us what is at stake.

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