NPPF: Shade's Poem

[jbor]

>> All that said, this section of Shade's poem, juxtaposing his ablutions
>> with  his poetic pretensions and methods, is a prime example of the
>> poet's self-indulgent banality, and thus of Nabokov's satiric intent,<<<
> 
> Surely this is nonsense!  It is a prime example of the poet's self-irony,
> as Nabokov imagines Shade.
> 
> Anthony Stadlen
> STADLEN at AOL.COM 

It's the affectation of it -- the "self-irony" -- which *is* self-indulgent
and banal.

    My Adam's Apple is a prickly pear:
    Now I shall speak of evil and despair

It's doggerel. Laughably so.

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