have given up "the careless life" and "might not even want a second chance" at pursuing it. They have stopped seeking to escape responsibility, finding satisfaction in the completion of its daily tasks; they know "the daily price/of poverty or laughing children or a friend/in pain." The "essential delight of their blood" (a phrase borrowed from Spender) might be disintegrating into "shards of memory", but it retains a reality that is missing from Spender's "ageless springs".[by Mark Abley]
The Not Quite Great
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Not Quite Great
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