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Circumlocution

In a round-about, indirect Not to deflect but inspect Alternative means to deflect From some singular aspect, Of getting to a point or effect… I need to be more direct.

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Date: 7/29/2025 11:21:00 AM
Hello Tom, According to literary sources, circumlocution often signals ineffective or evasive writing—but when turned inward, as here, it becomes a purposeful rhetorical strategy, turning the poem’s form into its meaning
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