[Sorry: I just sent a blank post]

If I recall correctly, Blunt was widely ostrasized after he opposed British
entry into WW1 -- but Pound paid a social call on him.

He is not metaphorically or other wise a door:

        To have, with decency, knocked [on a door]
        That a Blunt should open [it].

I think the interesting word is "a": Does that make Blunt [merely?] an
instance of a class? Throughout the *Pisan Cantos* EP is extracting a
"tradition" [light fighting for speed] that can or will survive the
wreckage. Does "decent" carry the force of "decorum": suitable, fitting --
coherence of parts to whole, of whole to parts, of form and content, etc.?

Carrol


Tim Romano wrote:

> "To have, with decency, knocked
> That a Blunt should open"
>
> Is this an allusion to a specific visit  Why is Blunt (metaphorically) a
> _door_?
>
> Tim Romano