The Sublime and Poetic Language
| Poetic language tends to push language in one direction or another, towards order, number, logic, or towards disorder, dream, and nightmare or frenzy |
| At the two extremes, language fails: |
Put too much in, and the result is an inarticulate venting, a cry or scream |
Take too much out, and the result is silence |
| Yet poetic language is most interesting — most intense, most affecting — as it approaches these two extremes |
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