Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), in his Essays, wrote that "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance." He failed to go on to explain his point, but his meaning is clear. Poetry differs from prose and other genres by that has formal devices and techniques used to construct it, and that without such ... techniques poetry is not, as such, poetry. Judith Wright's South of My Days and Woman to Man are two poems which display this link between the use of poetic devices and the forming of coherent meaning. The ... these in the ...

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