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"The scribbler's dream" written by Lawrence darmani symbolizes the need to express oneself through writing.

Explanation:

In "The scribbler's dream" the poet reflects on a dream that is stuck in the scribbler's mind and needs to be expressed through writing. The dream needs to be told, filling pages and pages until filling the voids on the shelves. However, the poet shows how the scribbler lost his practice and sensitivity in writing, making the pen heavy in his hands, but the need to write remains alive and crying out for it to be quenched.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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