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Friday, February 21, 2020

Words have different weight in different poets.  So

"Now who will behold
The royal captain of that ruined band
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent"

There is a Shakespearean muscularity that Creeley wouldn't have. Or D.H. Lawrence, "the insidious mastery of song / betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong..."

There the anapests and the polysyllabic words give a different weight to the speech. The only way to feel this is memorize and recite.


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