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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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A Poem Deserves Its Title Only Inasmuch

Edgar Allan Poe
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. the value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. but all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.
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I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. the whole life of us writers, the whole product i guess i mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. it's all the same poem. it doesn't belong to any one writer - it's god's poem perhaps. or god's people's poem.
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... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. the remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. it is better to write about other people's poetry.
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The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. more profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.
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For poetry is, i believe, always an act of the spirit. the poem teaches us something while we make it. the poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.
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