{"id":6910,"date":"2026-08-15T18:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/confidence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:06:33","slug":"confidence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence by Danil Rudoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cConfidence\u201d by Danil Rudoy<\/strong> is a four-line dialogue poem from Love Is Poetry<\/em>, dated 2019 and May 5th 2020. Three questions and three terse answers compress action, Providence and self-confidence into a miniature exchange.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Confidence<\/h2>\n
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\u201cWhat is the hardest?\u201d \u201cTo act.\u201d
\u201cSomething you don\u2019t buy?\u201d \u201cProvidence.\u201d
\u201cIf there was one thing you lacked,
What would it be?\u201d \u201cSelf-confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2019, May 5th 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Publication<\/h2>\n

\u201cConfidence\u201d appears in Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life<\/em><\/a>, within The City Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Dialogue and self-knowledge<\/h2>\n

The poem advances through three question-and-answer turns. The first answer names action as the hardest demand. The second gives Providence a flat refusal. The final question expands across two lines and ends with \u201cSelf-confidence,\u201d turning the exchange inward toward a quality the speaker identifies as lacking.<\/p>\n

The alternating rhyme of act\/lacked<\/em> and Providence\/self-confidence<\/em> binds the answers into a compact formal argument. The closing compound repeats the sound of \u201cconfidence\u201d while sharpening its meaning through the prefix self-<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Critical reading<\/h2>\n

A detailed critical reading of \u201cConfidence\u201d<\/a> on Prose & Poetry examines its dialogue, epigrammatic compression, rhyme, action, Providence, self-confidence and tonal economy.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Related reading<\/h2>\n

Continue with Friday Night<\/em><\/a>, Recurrent Pattern<\/em><\/a>, and the wider English poems by Danil Rudoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Text and citation<\/h2>\n

Copyright \u00a9 Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author\u2019s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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