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Unread 08-12-2009, 07:51 AM
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Mr Whitworth,

Yes, Yeats did start out behind the Georgian 8 ball; that's why his growth was so necessary and is so impressive (and why, alas, he needed to credit Pound's assistance in jump starting the process).

Ms Martin and Mr Tice,

Yes, I could come up with an explanation of each of the shadowy lines; I meant only to point out how vague and abstract the poem is, how heavily it relies on the automatic responses generated by poesy-fied words and how little that response is earned.

The ephemeral clouds of hawthorn (it is almost the only concrete image in the poem) are the tree's spring blossoms, a cloud which does not last and which, inevitably, ends up on my sidewalk or lawn, insisting on being raked and swept.

RHE
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