"The power to stick in the mind is a little-analyzed attribute in poetry, but we need to acknowledge it as a mark of genuine poetic success." So true. Thank you for sharing this. I have never heard of this poem or poet!
You appear to have left out the first stanza? Wonderful little poem I remember from childhood, and I enjoyed this commentary on it; it was interesting to learn about the poet.
Wonder if Mr.Nobody was an update of Ulysses being called no one by the Cyclops.
In the same lineage: the recurring characters of Not Me and Ida Know in the Family Circus cartoons I grew up with.
"The power to stick in the mind is a little-analyzed attribute in poetry, but we need to acknowledge it as a mark of genuine poetic success." So true. Thank you for sharing this. I have never heard of this poem or poet!
You appear to have left out the first stanza? Wonderful little poem I remember from childhood, and I enjoyed this commentary on it; it was interesting to learn about the poet.
Fixed it.