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A mixture of memory, observation, and imagination finally make a poem what it is.
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A poem becomes what it is through the combined work of three elements: remembered experience, careful attention to what is seen, and imaginative invention. None of these alone fully defines the poem. Its character comes from how memory, observation, and imagination are brought together.
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