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His criticism ripples forth from feelings of helpless rage, and from these feelings he shouts out his message to the humanity asking us not to abandon civilization, and not allow it to turn into a monument to the dead. In this world of darkness and annihilation, a world brimming with the smallness of men, Prattis sees poetry as a force of transmutation that fills the Cosmos with meaning. 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