What's causing all the featherspitting here is the conviction that the narrator of a first-person poem is not a character therein. If this is truly how the land lies, then I stand chastened and corrected. Mine wasn't created for this competition - it's a Speccie reject which some others may remember - but I must admit I thought it reflected Frost's homely application to the tasks incumbent upon the rural dweller... Still, 'nuff said.
But I really must plead for Frank's entry. Byron is surely a character in Auden's letter thereunto and the result is a cracking good poem that I suspect the Lit Rev people may very well enjoy.
I think we're going to have to read between the lines a bit on this one.
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