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In the years since her death, Mary Shelley has been called a "poetess," a "mad muse," and a "wild woman." In her work, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus , she explores the idea of human creation. She also explores the idea of madness. As she explains in her poem "Sad Things Are Beautiful Only from a Distance," to be mad is to be detached from reality. To do this is to become a poet who speaks from a distance about what cannot be seen, about what is lost and forgotten.
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