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Gregory Orr also
has a whole theory

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about the beloved in
poetry and the meaning

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of a beloved in a poem.

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That goes back to
the myth of Orpheus,

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which is very important
to him and to his thinking

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on the subject.

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So if you've read, if you
read, certainly his book,

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Orpheus and Eurydice.

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But you could also read this
book, Poetry as Survival, which

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is a wonderful book on craft.

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And he talks a lot about that.

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This is the last one I'll
read from him from Hymn

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for the Black Terrific.

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It's called "The
Terrible Test of Love."

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"If you were scrimshaw
and this, the Arctic

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loop, with miles to climb.

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If I had feet
unslippered and a knife.

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If, in busted crenelations of
my teeth, there kept a knife,

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such knife there
kept, such colored

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if that knife, if kept
the colored if of knife,

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the colored feet, and kept a
folio behind a door outsized.

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"My will to touch
outsized that colored if.

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My will outsized to touch the
naked sea bass of such knife.

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My colored teeth, my swarms.

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If you, my scrim, my all
behind a door should sleep,

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and then, if I should
come in swarms of dark,

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oh love, to climb that
Arctic loop of dark,

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to best that door, to swarm.

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If I should cross that only
door, my only love, my best.

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If you should wake
from tuneless dark

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and call, oh, best,
best, oh, most best,

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my knife unslippered at the
door, my naked will outsized.

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"What answer then?

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What seabass clangs
in tuneless eye?

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Pull back.

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Pull back my crenelated arms.

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Pull back my naked
feet, out-swarmed.

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My Arctic will
behind a seabass door

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creeps back inside, the
clanging room of loops,

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where sleeps my only love.

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Keep I awake with
crenelated cry,

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where loop, loop,
loop, loop, is tuneless

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in the folio of night."

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