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    It is not the case that Lyric poetry can evoke the static presence of a body through accumulated sensory epithets without embedding it in any narrative action.

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    • 1.All language embeds temporal action: even static epithets require cognitive processing that creates micro-narratives of reading and meaning-making.
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    • 2.Canonical lyric poems claiming static presence (Herrick, Marvell) actually contain implicit action: desire, loss, seduction, resistance.
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    • 3.Sensory epithets alone lack determinate content; readers impose narrative frames to make accumulated images cohere into meaningful presence.
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    • 1.Sensory accumulation creates presence through intensity: repeated epithets build bodily reality without requiring temporal progression or plot.
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    • 2.Lyric's formal constraints (compression, musicality) actively enable static portraiture by rejecting narrative's sequential demand.
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    • 3.Keats' 'La Belle Dame' and similar works demonstrate bodies evoked vividly through sensory detail prior to or independent of narrative framing.
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