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ake whatever accommodation his personal love ofregularity requires and still find the driving 4-beatmeasure. The following two passages will serve to show some-thing of the different effects of these poems: He looks natural,He smiles well, he smells of the future,Odourless ages, an ordered worldOf planned pleasures and passport-control,Sentry-go, sedatives, soft drinks andManaged money, a moral planetTamed by terror: his telegram setsGrey masses moving as the mud dries.Many have perished; more will. (The Age of Anxiety.)
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