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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.
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"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative"

- Marilyn Hacker

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Marilyn Hacker's quote talks to the power of poetry to tell stories. She recommends that private poems, while each fixed in a moment, can be combined to produce a narrative. The poems can be either lyric or descriptive/narrative in nature, however when read together, they take on the motion and architecture of a narrative. This recommends that the specific poems, while each special, can be woven together to create a bigger story. This is a testimony to the power of poetry to tell stories, and to the skill of the poet to craft a story from specific moments. It is a tip that poetry can be used to tell stories, and that the specific minutes can be integrated to produce a larger story.

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USA Flag This quote is written / told by Marilyn Hacker somewhere between November 27, 1942 and today. She was a famous Poet from USA. The author also have 30 other quotes.

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