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Poetry Now.(Poem)
POETRY NOW Poetry is tremendously popular now. That may be an astounding fact to many people, particularly as poetry in our culture has a negative image. After all, for many years we were subjected to the indignity of having to memorise long narrative poems for school recitals. The very word "Shakespeare" could suggest boredom and having to virtually translate his poetry into modern, plain English. Poets are often depicted as being effete, out of touch with reality, concerned with images of roses and swans, using an artificial language. But all this has changed (Writing and Publishing Poetry by Stephen Wade) Poetry once had a negative image, Poetry once was all boring and hard, ...
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