Kate, it was RP Warren who dubbed me Poet Lariat when I was a kid. Dana G. has written a delightful memoir of his study with Fitzgerald at Harvard in 1973. 70 students arrived the first day, and Fitzgerald told them they would study all five volumes of Saintsbury's English Prosody, memorize thousands of lines, told them they needn't even think about writing poems but about learning the rudiments of verse. Nine showed up the next day. As I recall the grades on exercises were Totally Awful, Bad, Not Bad, and Not at all Bad. Your poem is really marvelous, one that grows with each reading. I had no difficulty with it, even on first encounter.
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