All Comments on 'April Fool'

a form I should recognize? Either way it's a wonderful homage to Eliot. Just really good, GM.

Blank. Kind of esoteric because of the subject, but I enjoyed writing it.

There were some slant rhymes. If I wrote it again, the last line would be:

"Something is cruel, but April is kind" to end it on a more positive note.

I don't know if this poem is brilliant or confused. It seems brilliant, but as I can't really understand it, it seems confused. The "Waste Land" references are clear, but I don't get the Bleistein ones.

Please don't get me wrong. You are by far the most interesting poet here.

I'm just not sure I understand this poem.

As I said OF, this is rather esoteric. Bleistein was a character in one Eliot's poems. Many thought of the poem as an anti-semitic slur. Line 3 in the last stanza alludes to his "4 Quartets."

I'm among those who believe Eliot was anti-semitic, of the "suburban" type, as Ezra Pound would characterize his own anti-semitism later. I thought Eliot and Pound were instrumental in the development of modern poetry, but they both were very arrogant. "April Fool" was my attempt, vain perhaps, at a comeuppance.