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.
Friday, January 3, 2003
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12/11/2024 11:21:35 PM # 1.0.0
Hebrew poetry is prose ...ecstasy affords. SYLVA-ONYEMA UBA