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‘I have already suggested that one way in which the poem mimics experience is by its using irrational associations, and appealing to deep-seated areas of sensitivity in the reader’s subconscious mind, so that the words do not merely carry single meanings, but have as rich an accompaniment of associations and implications as possible. The poem recognises and presents the complexity of perception. This complexity of perception is mainly put over by causing meanings and notions to occur simultaneously.’*

*Ibid, 26-27

[Exactly so; & for the present writer, for long fiction also.]

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