Having left the US at the same age Grandpa did (owing in part to all the bumper stickers which said AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT)... I've always thought of the poem as an indictment of Amerikan kulture... or lack thereof. I wonder WHEN it was written?

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 ---- you wrote:
> does anyone have an explication of this?
> is he mocking st francis?
> ....the harvard classicism of amb lowell
> (&, by extension, possum) of previous "ritratto"?
> ....yeats' "image out of spiritus mundi"?
> ....gertrude stein?
> ....america?
> ....is it just the stilted witticism of snobbery?
> ....what is the exact content of "the thought"?
>
> does anyone have a firm fix on it?
>
> bob
>


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