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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker compares publishing poetry to letting a single rose petal fall into an enormous canyon and then listening for a sound. The joke is wry and rueful: verse is delicate, the public vastly larger, and the reply is faint or never arrives.
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