he must create immediate drama; there's no time to warm up the poem's theme or subject or to ease into the poem's narrative. In other words, the game is always on. This last point relates to something that's also central to lyric poetry--that poems don't build from a valley to a peak. Consider this image instead: A poem consists of a series of peaks with bottomless ravines in between.
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Fixed in space, a poet's eight lines frame meaning
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