I'd guess that the best poets don't concern themselves much with
alluding to current events in their poetry.
==Dan
At 01:15 PM 10/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear friends --
>
>I last night ran across a claim (authored by Hugh Kenner) that Canto II
>is an "oblique protest against the Prohibition amendment". ...
>
>It does seem strange that such a socially sweeping legislative act
>should not find fuller representation in the verse of Modernist poets,
>Go Cubs!
>Jon Weidler (in Chicago)