If external action is effete <br />and rhyme is outmoded, <br />I shall revert to you, <br />Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class <br />the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse. <br />He said - and I think I repeat his exact words - <br />"Hebrew poetry is prose <br />with a sort of heightened consciousness." Ecstasy affords <br />the occasion and expediency determines the form.<br /><br />Marianne Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-past-is-the-present/
