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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373485" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Letter to My Aunt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To you, my aunt, who would explore<br>The literary Chankley Bore,<br>The paths are hard, for you are not<br>A literary Hottentot<br>But just a kind and cultured dame<br>Who knows not Eliot (to her shame).<br>Fie on you, aunt, that you should see<br>No genius in David G.,<br>No elemental form and sound<br>In T.S.E. and Ezra Pound.<br>Fie on you, aunt! I'll show you how<br>To elevate your middle brow,<br>And how to scale and see the sights<br>From modernist Parnassian heights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First buy a hat, no Paris model<br>But one the Swiss wear when they yodel,<br>A bowler thing with one or two<br>Feathers to conceal the view;<br>And then in sandals walk the street<br>(All modern painters use their feet<br>For painting, on their canvas strips,<br>Their wives or mothers, minus hips).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps it would be best if you<br>Created something very new,<br>A dirty novel done in Erse<br>Or written backwards in Welsh verse,<br>Or paintings on the backs of vests,<br>Or Sanskrit psalms on lepers' chests.<br>But if this proved imposs-i-ble<br>Perhaps it would be just as well,<br>For you could then write what you please,<br>And modern verse is done with ease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not forget that 'limpet' rhymes<br>With 'strumpet' in these troubled times,<br>And commas are the worst of crimes;<br>Few understand the works of Cummings,<br>And few James Joyce's mental slummings,<br>And few young Auden's coded chatter;<br>But then it is the few that matter.<br>Never be lucid, never state,<br>If you would be regarded great,<br>The simplest thought or sentiment,<br>(For thought, we know, is decadent);<br>Never omit such vital words<br>As belly, genitals and -----,<br>For these are things that play a part<br>(And what a part) in all good art.<br>Remember this: each rose is wormy,<br>And every lovely woman's germy;<br>Remember this: that love depends<br>On how the Gallic letter bends;<br>Remember, too, that life is hell<br>And even heaven has a smell<br>Of putrefying angels who<br>Make deadly whoopee in the blue.<br>These things remembered, what can stop<br>A poet going to the top?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A final word: before you start<br>The convulsions of your art,<br>Remove your brains, take out your heart;<br>Minus these curses, you can be<br>A genius like David G.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take courage, aunt, and send your stuff<br>To Geoffrey Grigson with my luff,<br>And may I yet live to admire<br>How well your poems light the fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dylan+Thomas">Dylan Thomas</a><div class=q>
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To you, my aunt, who would explore
The literary Chankley Bore,
The paths are hard, for you are not
A literary Hottentot
But just a kind and cultured dame
Who knows not Eliot (t..."></div>
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