Auden mastered the Very Tricky Bit of ABAB end-rhymes in prosaic sentences
chopped to 11-"soundbyte"lines. His ideas, ever-imitative; his penchant:
hackneyed philosophy. One of his "specialties": pretentious
fakery---particularly when it comes to Chinese language and culture, easily
fooling goggle-eyed Westerners.
Pity, all that, innit?
Don't you dare imitate---for any reason at any time---Auden, hear?!
Judy
2008/7/12 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>:
> I think Auden was an absolute master at this sort of thing - "the
> crack in the tea-cup opens / a lane to the land of the dead", and so
> on. There's also a bit of "Bagpipe Music" in this one, maybe.
>
> Dominic
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