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The single fact that distinguishes poetry from prose is the line. Where a sentence ends because a thought is finished, a line ends because the poet has decided so. That decision is the form. Key sections include: Po e try.; Opening The line, not the sentence.; I · Definition What a poem is.; II · Origins Before the page.; III The alliterative line.; IV Dante & the Commedia.; V The sonnet.; VI The English Romantics.; VII Whitman, & the long American line.; VIII Dickinson, & compression..
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