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    “Though pedantry denies,
    It’s plain the Bible means
    That Solomon grew wise
    While talking with his queens....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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    “But some who this blithe mood present,
    As on in lightsome files they fare,
    Shall die experienced ere three days be spent—
    Perish, enlightened by the vollied glare;
    Or shame survive, and, like to adamant,
    Thy after shock, Manassas, share.”
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