Why do certain words pop out of the poem and stare you in the face? Is it because the rhythm marks them? Or the rhyme? Or are the words repeated? Do several stanzas seem to be about the same ideas; if so, do these ideas form any kind of sequence?[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 225]
-Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
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