I'm quite surprised by the responses this poem has elicited. Either strongly
for or against. I expect I shall keep it; it's working with a certain lyric
mode I'm enjoying exploring at the moment.
I'm not sure what politics have been discerned in it; but whatever they are,
they come from Moby-dick. And I'm at a loss to know how it is "hectoring".
As for this:
"Let's say
that the poem doesn't seem to me to evidence the cost, whatever it
may have been."
I find myself wanting to echo Petrarch - labour and poetry have nothing to
do with each other. That is a particularly puritan equation, to derive
virtue from cost.
All best
A
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