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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
Author
Literary Critic
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
Poetry
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Happen
Write
Geneticists
Happens
Psychologists
Doe
Psychologist
Come
Poem
Writing
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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
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