01-12-2012, 10:39 AM
I merely meant, that it would have been tempting to have cut it off there, although I accept it would have been something quite different from what you intended. I am sufficiently shallow that if I saw that it sounded slick, no matter what my original, deep plan had been, I should say "Poke that!" and call a halt. 
Just as you say "Poke Keats!" But there are others, Francis Thompson eg (last line, last word, you don't have to read):
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-no-strange-land/
As to 'cave' and 'Lethe' in the poem, I am too polite to explain the connection I made, and then shocked myself at meaning I gave to 'Lethe'. Perhaps I was influenced by Sartre, the old woman-hater: "Le Diable, c'est vous!" (cheerfully following "L'enfer, c'est les autres" --now there, he had a point.)
Just as you say "Poke Keats!" But there are others, Francis Thompson eg (last line, last word, you don't have to read):
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-no-strange-land/
As to 'cave' and 'Lethe' in the poem, I am too polite to explain the connection I made, and then shocked myself at meaning I gave to 'Lethe'. Perhaps I was influenced by Sartre, the old woman-hater: "Le Diable, c'est vous!" (cheerfully following "L'enfer, c'est les autres" --now there, he had a point.)