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I have some new poems that I
think I'm going to intersperse.

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I think that's the right word.

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One of them is a poem that
deals with point of view.

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I was reading something,
I like to read it

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because I like to prove that
I've heard of Stephen Spender.

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And it was after reading some
of selected poems of Stephen

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Spender and I thought that I
had come upon something that

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shows the difference oftentimes
because I opened the book

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and there was a Stephen
Spender poem called Attica

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and I read it, and it
wasn't about what I thought

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it was going to be about
and I thought I have,

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you know, enlightenment
comes in funny ways.

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And so this is
called After Reading

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a Poem by Stephen Spender.

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Basically this is
the difference,

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you write a poem called
Attica, it is about a God.

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He is huge, He is
hard, He is merciless.

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I write a poem called Attica.

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It is huge, it is
hard, it is merciless,

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it has nothing to do with God.

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[APPLAUSE]

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