Derek Mahon's fresh long poem (inc...

Derek Mahon's fresh long poem (included in this body with four short lyrics) is a poetry epistle, composed for the mostly part in pentameter two verses s and addressed to various bodily forms living and dead. as it is a form and meter invite comparison with neoclassical rhyme and indeed Mahon's regard for both human reason and human frailty has something in habitual with the neoclassical world-view. Mahon is les confident in the wisdom he has to present his readers, however - certainly les confident than a imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writer like Pope, who, after all, could appeal to great commonplaces handed down according to ...