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Crediting Poetry, by Seamus Heaney
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- Which is why for years I was bowed to the desk like some monk bowed over his prie-dieu, some dutiful contemplative pivoting his understanding in an attempt to bear his portion of the weight of the world, knowing himself incapable of heroic virtue or redemptive effect, but constrained by his obedience to his rule to repeat the effort and the posture.†
- This is a story about another monk holding himself up valiantly in the posture of endurance.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)