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Poetry Unbound
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The Importance of Time
The advice of this poem play, stop, rewind, fast forward obviously calls to mind some kind of video recorder or video player. well as the love that you share with other people. The poet says later you will replay the night like a tape in your mind's eye so later and she isn't only replaying that evening toward the end of the poem she's replaying her whole life. I really don't get the sense that this is a poem of deep self-recrimination i get the sense this is a poem that is looking at alternatives and is looking at the future"
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