doesn't merely depend on that drama of where and when it [Chidiock Tichborne's "Elegy"] was composed. In that time of religious passion in all its ugliness, those violent energies don't drive the poem, either. The energy of the poem comes from a certain way of thinking and writing: an explosive intensity of focus, the ability to illustrate a dire situation with a series of compact metaphors, repeating the idea of early death while varying it just enough with each new figure of speech to concentrate the momentum by another degree.from Robert Pinsky: Slate: Poets Under Pressure
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