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... poetry as ' some kind of counterpoise to the struggles of a world ' : an oppositional force . In this neglected phrase , Burns anticipates the argument of Seamus Heaney's The Redress of Poetry : that poetry is an oppositional force ...
... poetry as ' some kind of counterpoise to the struggles of a world ' : an oppositional force . In this neglected phrase , Burns anticipates the argument of Seamus Heaney's The Redress of Poetry : that poetry is an oppositional force ...
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... poetry against ' about about ' leaves the idiot questioner understandably dumbfounded . Not for or about , the special intransitive- ness of poetry drives this poet into rigmaroles of ' not ' , and the baffled fellow - traveller ' back ...
... poetry against ' about about ' leaves the idiot questioner understandably dumbfounded . Not for or about , the special intransitive- ness of poetry drives this poet into rigmaroles of ' not ' , and the baffled fellow - traveller ' back ...
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... poetry's ' use ' and ' reassurance ' . Form and use pull in opposite directions . His question about form's habitableness might also be recalling Stevenson's own question in ' Making Poetry ' : ' And why inhabit , make , inherit poetry ...
... poetry's ' use ' and ' reassurance ' . Form and use pull in opposite directions . His question about form's habitableness might also be recalling Stevenson's own question in ' Making Poetry ' : ' And why inhabit , make , inherit poetry ...
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