The Bard's Something, edit 1: Achebe, kolemath

[Achebe]

The Bard's Warning


It is no lamb but lambs that draw the cat ...I suppose you mean 'it is not one lamb, but serveral that draws the cat' - if something else, it's not clear. The assertion is not grounded in reality.
whose fearful symmetry strikes awful dread ....this is unjustified hyperbole that spoils the allusion, since He smiled His work to see
even in our Lord's eyes -- as if your course, ....don't see how the 'as if' carries on a consistent, coherent train of thought from the previous line
aloof and distant from the flock, should grant
security. It is no lamb -- the tiger
spots then stalks then pounces on those alone
and by his sounds of feasting draws the flock
toward his fellow hunters. Times have changed: ....the tiger by its sound of feasting draws the flock towards other tigers? An unhelpful because false analogy.
as lions wait for death and falcons gyre, ..falcons always gyre. The point was that the falcon couldn't hear the falconer.
tigers gather in flocks and lambs divide. ...wait - didn't you just say that a flock of lambs was being stalked by the tiger's mates?
When shall God's fear revive the slouching pride? ...sudden, unconnected reference to Allah
When shall new verse thus well-considered mend
a nation's mind -- and ill-considered, lead
to overthrow of slaughter, haste, and greed? ...some allusion to the welcome cleansing of riff-raff in the Philippines? Too general. Could be anything.

Hi RN - this one I found to be too highfaultin, full of false analogies and misleading allusions. Either that, or I've misread the entire thing, which is also quite possible.