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A poem in one sense is a word game, a use of words in such a way as to suggest more than a simple, direct statement implies: “The door is closed.” But having written that sentence, I realize even this assertion may be made poetic through associations, since it could mean more than it says. It could imply a finality
to something, no more possibilities, no more intrusions, no more problems, no more hope, silence.
The word game opens the listener or reader to imaginative possibilities that depend for the game’s success on one’s sensibilities. What does a closed door suggest to you?
Another feature of poetry is the effect of the invention of a scene or circumstance through the poet’s evocation of it from pure imaginatibn or by figurative description. For instance, what does Walt Whitman tell us when he says, “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed”? He is talk
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