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 (n): language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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about 1 year ago reesetee said:

Thanks, V, for posting this. Haven't read it in quite a while. :-)

about 1 year ago uselessness said:

Very nice. Have you considered creating a Poetrie list?

about 1 year ago vmarinelli said:

The first time I encountered this word was in Adrienne Rich's poem, Poetry I:

Someone at a table
under a brown metal lamp is studying
the history of poetry. Someone
in the library at closing time
has learned to say "modernism,"
"trope," "vatic," "text." She is
listening for shreds of music, he is
searching for his name back in the
old country. They cannot learn without teachers.
They are like us. What we were. If you
remember. In a corner of night, a voice
is crying in a kind of whisper more. Can
you remember when we thought the poets
taught how to live? That is not the
voice of a critic, or a common reader.
It is someone young, in anger, hardly
knowing what to ask, who finds our lines,
our glosses, wanting in this world..
Damn, but I love Adrienne Rich.

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