Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
“Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.”
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
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