NPPF Aunt Maud

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 4 10:37:02 CDT 2003


> The thing that strikes me about this entry is just how thoroughly wrong
> Kinbote's interpretation of the poem is. He writes: "At her [Maud's] death,
> Hazel (born 1934) was not exactly a 'babe' as implied in line 90."
> 
> I don't for the life of me see that this is a relevant criticism of line 90.

Yeah, but most of commentary is like this. 

The  Dear Aunt Maud with the noble head in the poem is eccentric, no
doubt, but she is after all an artist. She raised the poet. And her
death, her dying, inspires some beautiful lines, themes.



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