ABSTRACT
The poet is under no obligation to provide his own or any generation with a metaphysical system or a prophetic message. Sometimes, however, he provides the material out of which systems and messages are made. He expresses the sensibility of a generation and, by making experience communicable, makes it tolerable. He makes it possible to think what could only be felt before. In poetry of this kind, narrative interest and logical development, however valuable they may be as adornments, are no more necessary than they are to a dictionary. What hotpotch, giberage doth the Poet bring? How strangely speakes? yet sweetly doth he sing.
