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“Re-Versing John Donne”

 

Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.

Take these lines by John Donne:

I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements and an angelic sprite.

And then consider how much easier they flow if they are re-versed like this:

I am a little world,
made cunningly of elements,
and an angelic sprite.

Re-versing is so often all that is needed to raise our Life Energy when reading many poets. Especially when reading aloud, as poetry deserves.

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Poetry,
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