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Originally Posted by W T Clark
It is the sensation: not facts, that convinces me or does not convince me of a poem. "Accessibility" and "difficulty" seem to me empty holes.
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But the “sensation” I often get from a “difficult” poem is one of buried treasure. So I either do the digging—and there are poems that take whole books to excavate—or I stay with the frustrating sense of unplumbed depths.