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The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion . . . [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.
Source: In Against Forgetting, 1993.
-- Denise Levertov, (Oct 24 1923-1997), English-US poet; She writes deceptively matter-of-fact verse; works include The Sorrow Dance, 1967.