dumbfoundry

The trouble with this poem is that it is too well-known for its own good. I'm trying, without much success, to remember the first time I read it. It seems always to have been among the poetry furniture in my head, and so I can't really ever recapture the first electrifying effect of my first encounter with it. But electrifying it was, that I recall, and it is good now to have the challenge of re-assessing this over-familiar poem and experience it as the new.

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