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Music of Poetry

For those especially interested in literature, we offer this question - what would you have if you crossed a Shakespearean sonnet with free verse?

Answer: poetry seemingly unstructured yet rhythmic and melodic. Dr. Gilliam calls it PoeticProseTM, the only viable form in the aftermath of free verse, but a form which nonetheless should be as musical to the ear and edifying to the intellect as it should be inspiring to the soul.

"As fiction is successful by coming to life as a story unfolding within the reader's imagination, poetry is successful by coming to life as it resonates in memory, as it transforms language into a dance, through repetition, between meaning and music.

Thus, we reread a novel to relive its beauty. Whereas, we reread a poem to reveal its beauty, because only through repetition does its beauty become resonant and alive in us.

Poetry should encourage us by its very nature to be indulgent toward it, and if a poem does not inspire in us a desire to reread it again and again, it is a failure." - From Optics.

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