Word: eliotscotch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell had to be brave to even attempt a poem so simple as this. There is no structured poetic theory like Stevens', between him and his subject, no fluffy metaphor to make the horror manageable, no "T. S. Eliotscotch-tape," as one of his memorialists says, to put the shattered lost world together again. And this is where Jarrell parts company with most of his contemporaries...
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