Word: meters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscurely hinting at the concluding incidents instead of recounting them lucidly. Curiously enough, although Mr. Morrison's "Loaves and Fishes" is the only story not marked by too great an emphasis upon this method of suggestion, the verse that he contributes, a "Sonnet", in addition to certain faults of meter and metaphorical language, lapses into the enigmatical. A little study, of course, reveals the meaning, and the trouble here seems to be not so much an exaggeration of "suggestiveness" as the fact that the writer has not sufficiently defined his thought in his own mind. The habit of implying rather...