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Article: FOR RHYME AND REASON POET LAUREATE RITA DOVE SAYS "POETRY IS LANGUAGE AT IT'S MOST DISTILLED AND MOST POWERFUL. " THESE AFICIONADOS WOULD AGREE.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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A FRESHMAN at Graham High School in Bluefield, Va., had a scary assignment one morning in 1958.
Young Robert D. Shrewsberry stood, wiped his sweaty palms on his pant legs, avoided any eye contact with his classmates or his English teacher, Mrs. Hughes, and lurched ahead:
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two - why, then 'tis time to do 't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet, who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? . . .
Ahh, the delicious madness of Lady Macbeth. Who can forget it? Certainly not Shrewsberry.
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