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From the Ted Talk by Cristina Domenech: Poetry that frees the soul
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
And we started to read, and we'd read one ______, then another author, and by reading such short poems, they all began to realize that what the poetic language did was to _____ a certain logic, and create another system. Breaking the logic of ________ also breaks the logic of the system under which they've learned to respond. So a new system ________, new rules that made them understand very quickly, - very quickly - that with poetic language they would be able to say absolutely whatever they wanted.
Solution
- language
- author
- break
- appeared
Original Text
And we started to read, and we'd read one author, then another author, and by reading such short poems, they all began to realize that what the poetic language did was to break a certain logic, and create another system. Breaking the logic of language also breaks the logic of the system under which they've learned to respond. So a new system appeared, new rules that made them understand very quickly, - very quickly - that with poetic language they would be able to say absolutely whatever they wanted.
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