TRIP TO HISTORIC BATH POEM 19

Conversation always has a point, but a poem has more than this. Poem has meaning, allusions and subtext, for example. So we look into a poem for a deeper meaning, as well as the potency of the words themselves.

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." Plato

Derisive

Your derision fills me with displeasure,

Not the usual instinct to please,

I wish to ennumber your faults,

Each false digit exposed to all.

If you were to flatter me I would,

Feel the same as I would,

Do the same to you,

So you knew.

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”. Gustave Flaubert