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On poetry and memory, from Arendt's The Human Condition (1958)

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I‘m very struck by the proposition that because memorability (ie via rhythm, structure) is a strong selection pressure, long-lived poetry is more “mind-shaped” than peers in other media!

6:38 PM · Jun 29, 2019Twitter for iPhone

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Yes: good poetry involves sight, sound, syntactic, and semantic patterns.