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Check this class description for an upcoming class at WWC:

The repetition of phrases and sounds is a technique many of us use to give our poems rhetorical as well as emotional emphasis. Too often, though, our poems are overwhelmed by this gesture and devolve into so much noise. In this class we will look to Whitman and Hopkins’ highly charged poems of ravaged landscapes to consider how one might “repeat” (or return) as a means of making the poem and its argument /more/ muscular and fluid at the same time. We will look to issues of craft to guide us. As such, students will be expected to participate fully in lively discussion.

Friends have already e-mailed to ask if I’m drooling with delight. I’m drooling.