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O is for Objective Correlative

O is for Objective Correlative

(image courtesy TS Sheng via Wikimedia Commons) O is for Objective Correlative. Whoa. Hold on there just a minute. At seven syllables, objective correlative sounds like some high-falutin’ scientific term you need about three Ph.D’s to decipher. Or maybe objective correlative is some nasty parasite lurking in your lower intestines. Nope. The poet T.S. Eliot defined objective correlative as “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of…emotion” (Lit Reactor). You know what…

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