Working my way through the latter half of Hollander's chapter on Marianne Moore, it hit me. There's a vast array of technical things that can be done in poetry. Turning things on rhymes, using enjambment to accentuate story, using rhyme to emphasize stress and change syllable counting. There's just so much there.
This is what reading things over your head is good for, though. It shows you what's on the higher stair that you otherwise can't quite see up to. Combined with an incredible by heart recitation by a local poet at a local writing group last night, the remnants of this chapter have inspired me to try to make my own poetry more technically accomplished.
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