poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on The Happy Side of Misery by Dovina.

Ranger26 May 2007

a country road
a cyclist
a house
a dairy barn

-all within the first four lines. It leaves me alphatised, not that alphatised is a word. Apparently there's a book devoted to Auden's use of the definite article, one day I will write one about your use of the indefinite article. Or maybe it won't be a book, maybe just an article. Okay, groan away.