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This is to be a summary
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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 image 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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Our
poems
will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the
poems
.
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Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my
poems
for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across vast distances,
considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.
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The truth of a
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is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
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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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A
poem
does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A
poem
invites you to feel. More than that: it invites you to respond. And better than that: a
poem
invites a total response.
This response is total, but it is reached through the emotions. A fine
poem
will seize your imagination intellectually — that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too — but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
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The process of writing a
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represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
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Outrage and possibility are in all the
poems
we know.
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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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