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This is to be a summary poem of the life of the Atlantic coast of this country, nourished by the communications which run down it. Gauley Bridge is inland, but it was created by theories, systems, and workmen from many coastal sections — factors which are, in the end, not regional or national. Local
images
have one kind of reality. U.S. 1 will, I hope, have that kind and another too. Poetry can extend the document.
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The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and
images
, so that the poem is alive throughout.
Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the
images
themselves — those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.
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The poetic
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is not a static thing. It lives in time, as does the poem. Unless it is the first
image
of the poem, it has already been prepared for by other
images
; and it prepares us for further
images
and rhythms to come. Even if it is the first
image
of the poem, the establishment of the rhythm prepares us — musically — for the music of the
image
. And if its first word begins the poem, it has the role of putting into motion all the course of
images
and music of the entire work, with nothing to refer to, except perhaps a title.
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In time of crisis, we summon up our strength.
Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten
image
that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
In time of the crises of the spirit, we are aware of all our need, our need for each other and our need for our selves. We call up, with all the strength of summoning we have, our fullness.
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The meanings of poetry take their growth through the interaction of the
images
and the music of the poem. The music is not the rhythm, which is a representation of life, alone. The music involves the interplay of the sounds of words, the length of the sequences, the keeping and breaking of rhythms, and the repetition and variation of syllables unrhymed and rhymed. It also involves the play of ideas and
images
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Muriel Rukeyser
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Born:
December 15, 1913
Died:
February 12, 1980
(aged 66)
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