Individualism, isolation, alienation. The poet is not only different from society, he is as different as possible from other poets; all this differen… - Randall Jarrell

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Individualism, isolation, alienation. The poet is not only different from society, he is as different as possible from other poets; all this differentness is exploited to the limit — is used as subject matter, even. Each poet develops an elaborate, “personalized”, bureaucratized machinery of effect; refine your singularities is everybody’s maxim.