Word: biter
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...through runs a vein of anger and bitterness. The title itself is biter, and the dedication to "Certain poets, friends of mine (all but one)" is still consistent. While each poem seems conceived in wrath and dedicated to irony, he does not dodge invective; see his remarks to "The Public" beginning...
...United States has up to the present, for better or for worse, refused to join the League. But it is significant that even in the biter days of 1920 the youth of the country as represented in the colleges and expressed in numerous straw-ballots, favored the ratification of the treaty and the covenant. It is significant also that now again the colleges are in the vanguard, pressing the issue before the country. Youthful sentimentality this may well be, but it is an undeniable tendency--a force to be reckoned with...