A Coat

The sharp point of difference between the elevated mind of a poet and the materialistic people is poignantly presented.

poem of deep invocation

Poem sounds like Yeats laments an epic song he wrote, filled with metaphors and allusion, misused.

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To try to interpret another’s work is useful only as a practice. The artist can never truly understand his or her own work, if truly art. We can learn more about a person, hypothetically, by studying their physical nakedness. From art we learn more about ourselves than we could ever know about another soul.

what? For the poet more value in doing nothing than in doing something that gets abused? The price of having a name..

Amazing His song a coat that other fools took and made their own, and he would rather go about naked Poetry is a window to one's soul, to grasp this is to understand poetry

Love the ending of this poem: For there is more enterprise in walking naked. Always associated nakedness with shame. Never thought of it in a different way.

I think he's talking about one's persona, protective outer personality. But then people can take it, leaving the person exposed. So I guess he's then saying, screw it, better to be yourself, be naked and be comfortable with it.

An amazing thought process behind this poem. Simple, biting and fun. I wonder how long it took to write.