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Poetic injustice

October 1st, 2008 by Square Table, Guest Contributor · 2 Comments

In his opening lines to a 1976 article on hidden meaning in poetry, Mya Ketu (pen name of U Chan Mya, a former professor at the Mandalay Arts and Science University) writes that as there are secret matters in life so too there are secrecies in poetic literature. “However,” he goes on, “The secrets in [...]

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