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4. See David McCuthion, Indian Writing in English (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1969), p. 100.
5. See Frye, Anatomy^ p» 141 ff.
6. See Fo H» Bradiey, Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (1893;
rpt, London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1969), p. 403 ff.
7. See Frye's interpretation of Arnold's three classes in Anatomy^ p. 347.
8. See W. H, Auden, The Dyer's Hand (New York: Random House, 1962), pp. 271-274.
9. K. Ro Sirinivasa lyenger, in his Indian Writing in English (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1962), remarks that there is a "miniature Anabasis^ (P. 397).
10. We may recall the last line of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind." Cf, Stephen Spender's Prose Poem:
Bring me peace bring me power bring me assurance. Let me reach the bright day, the high chair, the plain desk, where my hand at last controls the words, where anxiety no longer undermines me. If I don't reach these I'm thrown to the wolves, I'm a restless animal wandering from place to place, from experience to experi-enceo
Give me the humility and the judgment to live alone with the deep and rich satisfaction of my own creating; not to be thrown into doubt by a word of spite or disapproval.
In the last analysis don't mind whether your work is good or
bad so long as it has the completeness, the enormity of the whole
world which you 1ove»
-- The Making of a Poem (1955; rpt. New York: Norton, 1962), po 60.
11. It must, however, be noted that the solution offered is somewhat Kierke-gaardian»
12o The woman seems to be associated with sin, but the suggestion is rather very mild, especially when we consider it in the context of marriageo Sin in this context means fallen perception. Moreover, "the mark of Cain" appears on both of them. However, in his later poetry, Ezekiel takes a more positive view of woman, Cfc "A Woman Admired," Quest, 66 (July-September 1970), pp, 67-69,