In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Death's long anabasis.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.