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By Jack Joseph Smith

Clensed We could have as cauldrons Wisked away all in wandering Women and children are not adjustible, only individgual agony makes men happy A killing on the step of any country, that places another mind above yours If one should see the splendor in madness Then one must see the dignity in eternity This gift of fire same as sun This increase of indenity with caustieness of soul This vail worshiped, these bodies adored Sodum cast amost us, sin with no sea, no shore Hatered is easy when hurt, when not, it is a political hardship, none has found a way, again to see our daughters in love, for on all sides

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The opening of 'Clensed' treats national violence, dignity, worship, and hatred as part of one corrupted spiritual field.

Fire, sun, bodies, and daughters all appear in the same argument. The poem sees public brutality and intimate life contaminating one another.

Claude

A 'Clensed' draft that pivots the sequence toward open geopolitics. It asserts 'Women and children are not adjustible, / only individgual agony makes men happy,' and licenses 'A killing on the step of any country, / that places another mind above yours.' Its central equation pairs 'the splendor / in madness' with 'the dignity / in eternity.' 'Sodum cast amost us, sin with no sea, no shore' universalizes the guilt, and the poem distinguishes hatred born of hurt from hatred as 'a / political hardship,' grieving that no way has been found 'to see our daughters in love, for on all sides' the sons are cruel.