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What is a palinode?

What is a palinode? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem.
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The 1647 edition contains two poems, The Return and palinode, which stand to each other in a curious relation.
Afterwards, falling in love with a lady, he closes these sonnets with a palinode.
But although it revises the spiritual meaning of paralysis, East Coker is not a palinode of Eliot's earlier work.
I look for peace in the way that Plato trod, and some day I shall write my palinode in that spirit.
In his palinode Socrates corrects both his message and his character.
But any poem of retraction can be called a palinode these days without following this form.

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