The present is a gift

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  I find myself continually fascinated by the interplay of words. 

That interplay is on display just about any time you encounter words, spoken, written, or however the encounter occurs.  There's poetry all around us, not called out as such, thanks to the media world we live in.  So maybe Busker is right in additional/another way....to live in an environment like we do, does make the past seem pretty destitute.

But yes, context....one thing superior about the old masters is getting to live in their minds for a bit, no matter how constricted, like say, the Beowulf poet.  Going into the mind of a contemporary poet lacks that....whatever you want to call it....exploration?