No type of literary work can compete with poetry when it comes to scare factor. Readers don’t approach novels with fear and trembling. They might refuse to read academic essays, but only because they think them dry and boring, not because they think them hard to understand. Most readers, however, shun poetry out of fear — fear that they won’t understand…
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