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Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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Carl Sandburg means that Robert Browning's poems are clear and powerful on their own, so they don’t require any explanation or interpretation from a teacher. The poems speak directly to the reader, making outside help unnecessary.

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