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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
— M. H. Abrams
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About M. H. Abrams
Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (23 July 1912 – 22 April 2015) was an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1971).
About M. H. Abrams
Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (23 July 1912 – 22 April 2015) was an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1971).
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