The Age Demanded

Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway

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The age demanded that we sing
And cut away our tongue.The age demanded that we flow
And hammered in the ****.The age demanded that we dance
And jammed us into iron pants.And in the end the age was handed
The sort of **** that it demanded.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway

Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I , journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952),…

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