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From the poem I Hear an Army

My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?

— James Joyce

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?" in the context of "From the poem I Hear an Army" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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James Joyce

About James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century.