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In poetry, where beauty of rhythm, melody of sound and nobility of thought were once regarded as the true tests, we now have in freak forms of poetry the exaltation of the grotesque and brutal.
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Beck laments the decline of beauty in poetry, highlighting a shift in artistic values.
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