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Robert Morgan

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan is saying that poetry can change how we experience time by stretching or shrinking it in unusual ways. This means a poem might make a brief moment feel as long as a whole lifetime, or compress a long period into something very short.

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