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Mast Tree

By Richard Mather





The

piling

up of

words

into

units,

struc-

tures,

towers,

is what

might be

termed

the

phallic

unity

of

lang-

uage.

It was

Hulme

who said

words

ought to

‘stand up’

so that

a poem

is like

a tree

when

the

leaves

are

cut

off --

it ‘be-

comes

a mast’.


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