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Last month I contrasted the wordle (a collage of words with size proportionate to frequency of use) of the contents of my personal profile and my friend Siona's, and commented on how hers seemed more reflective of me than mine did.As a second experiment, I produced the wordle above of the contents of a collection of five of my own poems, and below it the contents of my favourite poem, TS Eliot's Four Quartets. I was kind of hoping that the result would be poetic, and it really isn't, but it is, I think, instructive. What jumped out at me immediately were the words time and world, in both wordles. It occured to me that most poetry, as re-present-ation, is essentially preoccupied with time and space, what happened where and when. Many of the prominent words in these wordles are temporal or spacial. The word now features in both, and while Eliot's place is the sea, mine is the forest. If poetry is infatuated with time and space, I wondered why most poetry makes such poor use of both to ma
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