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7.22.2013

gauging the language

As long as a reader can feel through the language that the poet knows something important is going on, the reader will go along. As soon as the reader senses that what is behind the language is trivial, all is lost.

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  1. A.E.M. Baumann11:28 PM

    I think you've rather struck the nail's head, there, on one not at all trivial point. (I might have to steal that from you.)

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