Tuesday, November 29, 2005

The Bank Tellers And T. S. Umbra Comments

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Wondering what T. S. Umbra was up to!
Not knowing exactly how the old man to construe!
The young tellers were perplexed!
What was next?
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Hubert Wilson
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Max Reif 29 November 2005

It sounds like this is a take-off on TS Eliot. I think it's pretty good. Some of your rhymes in the first 3/4 of the piece remind me of 'Prufrock' or something. I think a few of the rhymes near the end could be improved. 'Creepy', for example, seemed a little too colloquial for the rest of the poem. And 'a total reality change' is a bit of a cliche, I think.

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