A student—whose father had just died—reported that the clusters of meaning were so intense the words seemed to stand up on the page. Have you ever experienced anything like that? The poem is built, in...

A student—whose father had just died—reported that the clusters of meaning were so intense the words seemed to stand up on the page. Have you ever experienced anything like that?

The poem is built, in part, on a principle of repetition. How eff ective is this repetition? What is its infl uence on the emotional eff ect of the poem?