Erminia:
>Eliot was both, sadly.
But I wonder what Irish and Welsh poets - or frankly simply Irish or Welsh
poeple - would make of such a statement.
Like Alison, I feel you've got dave's point back to front (or ass backwards,
to use an American idiom ) -- it's just the bland homogenising mediocrity of
language, placeless and featureless, that dave's challenging.
As to what an Irish poet would think -- how about this excerpt from Tom
Paulin's "And Where Do You Stand on the National Question?":
Is'nt there
this local stir in us all? --
flick of the thumb, a word's relish,
the clitoral tick of an accent,
wee lick of spit or lovejuice?
Copyright forbids me to quote more, but the whole poem could stand as both a
meditation on and an acting-out of the point dave raises.
Robin
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