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ZEUGMA (ZOOG-muh)
A figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, is used in the same grammatical and semantic relationship with two or more other words, as in "my father wept for woe while I for joy," or Pope's:

Obliged by hunger, and request of friends.

(See also Syllepsis)
(Compare Ellipsis, Hendiadys, Prolepsis)

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                 the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls
we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists
nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble,
than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and
nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem's sake.

---"The Poetic Principle," Edgar Allan Poe


Poetry is rhythmical, imaginative language expressing the
invention, taste, thought, passion, and insight of the human soul.

---Edmund Clarence Stedman