06-23-2013, 07:27 AM
Quote:Kept me walking
out of town.
straight out of town.
Where I belong:
I trot like a fox
out of town.
Indeed, Hitler and Mussolini were rather nasty blokes -- but these lines for me are the most poignant in the poem. This is the point where the tramp communicates that he is being moved on because he doesn't deserve to be allowed to stay. He accepts his lack of acceptance. He values himself only in the moment. This is especially emotive against the backdrop of these enduring cities with their monuments as measurements of man's achievements.
Heart, you're certainly entitled to comment as you please and we'd never delete what you're saying, especially not in Miscellaneous -- although I don't think billy's disparaging anyone's poverty, just the order of lines in the poem.
It could be worse