Common Ion Effect

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    They sang, but had not human tunes nor words,
    Though all was done in common as before;

    They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)