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THE RIDDLE by ROBERT CREELEY

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT IT IS, THE LITERAL SIZE
Last Line: the name and titles

What it is, the literal size
incorporates.
The question
is a mute question. One is
too lonely, one wants
to stop there, at the edge of
conception. The woman
imperative, the man
lost in stern
thought:
give it form certainly,
the name and titles.



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