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... poet William Carlos Williams who called a poem “ a small ( or large ) machine made out of words . " He was echoing what Valéry had already said more than once : " A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state of mind ...
... poet William Carlos Williams who called a poem “ a small ( or large ) machine made out of words . " He was echoing what Valéry had already said more than once : " A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state of mind ...
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... poets generally avoid . " Moon , Sun , Sleep , Birds , Live " of Kenneth Patchen is like a work- ing model of a poem ... poetic " ones , words once alive but long since embalmed . Some readers , seeing them only in poetry of the past and ...
... poets generally avoid . " Moon , Sun , Sleep , Birds , Live " of Kenneth Patchen is like a work- ing model of a poem ... poetic " ones , words once alive but long since embalmed . Some readers , seeing them only in poetry of the past and ...
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... poets , more down to earth than their readers , would agree with Robert Graves that a poem should make prose sense as well as poetic sense . Even ecstatic poetry , thinks Graves , is no exception : A poem cannot make " more than sense ...
... poets , more down to earth than their readers , would agree with Robert Graves that a poem should make prose sense as well as poetic sense . Even ecstatic poetry , thinks Graves , is no exception : A poem cannot make " more than sense ...
Common terms and phrases
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