I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. -
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