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Very interesting suggestion by Stephen Adams (below).
Have we forgotten that casque means literally and primarily
a helmet? In which case, "The green casque has outdone your elegance"
is a line filled with bitter irony. The negative Order represented
by the army's kind of fashion statement and the army's typically
rigid, mechanical, insect-like movements (marching, saluting, etc.)
have for the moment stolen the show.
==Dan
>> Pull down thy vanity,
>> Paquin pull down!
>> The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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>> When has the army ever been interested in the concept of _elegance_ except
>> perhaps with regard to the efficient lethalness of a new weapon?
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>Could "the green casque" be a GI's helmet?
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>--
>Stephen Adams
>Department of English
>University of Western Ontario
>London, Canada N6A-3K7
>(519)-434-7519
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