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elizabeth bishop, a radical poet
Elizabeth bishop was a more radical poet than ginsburg or ferlingetty. She went back to the roots of poetry, kept rhythm and rhyme. Bishop understood that poetry wasn't simply a formal structure. It was a form of wisdom, literature. Memorizing poetry is the only way to learn poetry. You don't understand poetry until you learn it by heart. Think of the metaphor of learning it by heart, putting it into the very centre of your being and making it part of you. That's when, and only when, you under and how most of poetry's meaning is indirect, is intuitive, even physical.
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