WB Yeats : roundhead poet wants to be cavalier so bad he actually becomes one (stays poet)
Pound : guy who wants to be person (no luck) - so human predicament!!
Eliot : roundhead who becomes cavalier (accent, London flat riv. vw. incl.)
Wallace Stevens : who the hell cares! Yam what I yam, fellas (roundhead lemmings)
WC Williams : well-spoken roundhead with cavalier connections (dammit all, I yam the Peeps!)
2.06.2004
Labels:
American poetry,
cavaliers,
horses,
roundheads
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