The Past Is The Present Poem by Marianne Moore

The Past Is The Present

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If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said - and I think I repeat his exact words -
"Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness." Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.

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Sylvaonyema Uba 13 April 2018

Hebrew poetry is prose ...ecstasy affords. SYLVA-ONYEMA UBA

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Marianne Moore

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