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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PAST IS THE PRESENT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If external action is effete Last Line: "the occasion and expediency determines the form'." Variant Title(s): So Far As The Future Is Concerned Subject(s): Hebrew Literature | |||
IF external action is effete and rhyme is outmoded, I shall revert to you, Habakkuk, as on a recent occasion I was goaded into doing, by XY, who was speaking of unrhymed verse. This man said—I think that I repeat his identical words: "Hebrew poetry is prose with a sort of heightened consciousness. 'Ecstasy affords the occasion and expediency determines the form'." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEBREW MELODY by MRS. JAMES GORDEN BROOKS FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 3 by JOHN BYROM FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4 by JOHN BYROM ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER by CHARLES LAMB THE INTRUDER by PHILIP MAX RASKIN RODEF SHALOM by W. G. SKILLMAN |
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