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What does it mean?
Great poets often suffer greatly and die while still struggling.
In plain terms
Poets frequently die while in pain.
What can you take from it?
Talent does not protect from suffering.

Where it applies

  • memorials
  • historical reviews

Putting it to work

  • study poet lives

Questions to consider

  • Is art linked to pain?

Another view

It ignores poets who died peacefully.

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