"Homage to Michelangelo"
But as it were at once remove
For since "the women" "come and go"
It is not difficult to prove
That Eliot must stand between
The artist and the one he claims;
Perhaps as a transparent screen
And maybe not - for as he names
The prior artists as his king
He passes over poetry
And makes it a transmissive thing
Forgetting it has history
And changes what it would transmit
And so, an homage, too, to it.
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