<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575945" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death of Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is dead and God is alive.<br>I heard these words and began to cry.<br>Without poetry what would become of me, <br>Drowning in a sea of Christianity? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is dead and long let it lie<br>With its Thee and its Thy and its Thou and its Thine<br>May we never see another line<br>Of iambic pentameter with end-stopped rhymes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is dead, and so it shall lay, <br>Mouldering at the pit of its shallow grave.<br>And no longer will they give a hoot<br>For the quatrain stanzas or the metered foot! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is dead at the bottom of the sea<br>With its anapests, dithyrambs, dactyls and spondees.<br>And also eight to sixteen lines<br>On your innermost feelings or the meaning of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry is dead but how long will it stay<br>Before they resurrect it for another day? <br>Has it not been just a few years time<br>Since they said it was God who was dead—<br>-and poetry alive?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theresa+Haffner">Theresa Haffner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575945" data-title="The Death of Poetry de Theresa Haffner" data-description="Poetry is dead and God is alive. I heard these words and began to cry. Without poetry what would become of me, Drowning in a sea of Christianity? Poetry is dead and long let it lie With its Thee and its Thy and its Thou and its Thine May we nev..."></div> </div> </div>

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