[ilds] Poem offering

[slighcl]

Jamie send in "The Egg," from which I excerpt the following sampling:
> Pity was naked: who dried her feathers
> By the ancient pillow with cold ankles?
> (Pity, my friend, fell in with the scorpion:
> Murder with his bottle took my sweet.)
>
> Who found passion without a leg,
> Shrieked like the canticle of a ghost?
> A bat spat his blood in the nursery:
> A vessel in darkness but without a compass.
So I will note how I find a difficulty and obscurity of a different 
order here in comparison with "The Persian Lady."  Could someone give a 
brief overview for LD, Poet 1939 versus LD, Poet 1961?  I am no expert I 
am afraid, only a reader.  What style is he trafficking here in 1939 
versus the later poem, &c.?  "The Persian Lady" seems High Durrell, by 
comparison. 

C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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