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…showed last 75 words of 1885 total…current topics or about things that people knew about. This made them popular and people read them. The poems from the same era in the Norton Anthology are quite different. Their language is difficult, the poems are long, the reader had to analyze each line carefully and separately, and their topics were unrelated to what was going on in the world at that time. These characteristics made them unattractive and the published poems more appalling.