The Noble Position of Poet Laureate
like a scarab beetle
of the order coleoptera
the green and gold glitter
in the morning sunlight
as it makes it way with
pomp and circumstance
up the mountain of shit
to the very peak, nay the summit
of all poetic existence
and from this sublime height
it can survey all other . . . insects.
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日時 : 1999年5月22日 15:27
件名 : Re: Motion
>Can't believe I'm having to say this.
>
>It's not that Andrew Motion's appointment is bad (utterly predictable from
>the beginning, said as much to someone influential on the choice, who was
>flirting with other populist names of a familiar kind).
>
>I am so concerned about the conservativism of British class structures that
I
>turn from the whole question of the laureateship as I would a bad smell.
I'm
>still capable of being shocked that modern British poets should even think
of
>vying for this tarnished honour or that, except for cris's interesting
>remarks, we should think it worth much discussion. It amazed me how easily
>the newspapers corrupted professional poets into toadying around for over a
>year.
>
>The idea of a shadow laureateship continues the harm in another guise.
It's
>all a ridiculous media notion these days: let's have none of this
personality
>cult stuff -- bad enough in Petrarch's day when at least the status of
poetry
>was more clearly at stake. This is not the peak job in poetry: it's the
top
>of a dunghill. Cock-a-doodle doo.
>
>
>Doug
>
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