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A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
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“Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.”
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Poetry examples for “advertisements”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The Sick Rose I
The little Vagabond — Tho' I cannot approve altogether of this last poem, and have been inclined to think that the error which is most likely to beset the scholars of Em.[manuel] Sw[edenborg] is that of utterly demerging the tremendous incompatibilities with an evil will that arise out of the essential Holiness of the abysmal Aseity in the Love of the eternal Person — and thus giving temptation to weak minds to sink this Love itself into good nature, & yet still I disapprove the mood of mind in this wild poem so much less than I do the servile blind worm, wrap-rascal Scurf-coat of FEAR of the modern Saints (whose whole Being is a Lie, to themselves as well as to their Brethren), that I should laugh with good conscience in watching a Saint of the new stamp, one of the Fixt Stars of our eleemosynary Advertisements, groaning in wind-pipe! and with the whites of his Eyes upraised at the audacity of this Poem! — Anything rather than this degradation†† with which how can we utter 'Our Father'? of Humanity, and therein of the Incarnate Divinity!
Read full poem →For errors or omissions in listings or advertisements in telephone directories, allowances