In a sonnet about this man, he looks at his "blotched, bent hands" and offers the one-word observation, "Worms," after he laments, "Who's left alive to understand my jokes?
In a sonnet about this man, he looks at his "blotched, bent hands" and offers the one-word observation, "Worms," after he laments, "Who's left alive to understand my jokes?" This man is the unnamed subject of a poem with a cumulative pattern whose penultimate stanza begins, "These are the years and the walls and the door that shut on a boy that pats the floor to feel if the world is there and flat." Gary Snyder's poem "Axe Handles" revolves around a proverb he learned by reading this man, who is also the subject of Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Visits to St. Elizabeths." Public reaction to this man receiving the first Bollingen Prize caused the Library of Congress to withdraw its involvement. In the aforementioned Robert Lowell sonnet, this man refers to his mistress Olga Rudge, saying that she "knew it was shit, and still loved me" when he "talked that nonsense about Jews on the Rome wireless." For 10 points, name this modernist poet who wrote Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and promoted Imagism.
In a sonnet about this man, he looks at his "blotched, bent hands" and offers the one-word observation, "Worms," after he laments, "Who's left alive to understand my jokes?
Ezra Pound