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Compulsion

The poet's truth-telling is compulsory: a fire burns inside the poet and must be released or the poet will be unable to sleep, eat, breathe, or survive the pressure.

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2026-01-21 lecture model of poetic compulsion

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The poet's truth-telling is compulsory: a fire burns inside the poet and must be released or the poet will be unable to sleep, eat, breathe, or survive the pressure.

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The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization

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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...

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