This is one of my favorite poems by W.H. Auden:
T.S. Eliot is quite at a loss
When clubwomen bustle across
At literary teas
Crying "What, if you please,
Did you mean by The Mill on the Floss?"
I figured my fellow literary types would get the joke. Believe me when I say there WERE people in my literature class who didn't get it.
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Oh I love this! I've read only a bit from Auden but all the poems I've read I've enjoyed. Happy Poetry Month :)
My favorite Auden poem is the one used in Four Weddings and a Funeral, which doesn't seem to have a name, but often goes by "Funeral Blues." It's terribly sad. Sigh. I love Auden!
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