A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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Essay: 'The Figure a Poem Makes'

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1939

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69383/the-figure-a-poem-makes

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