Poem: "Perhaps this could have stayed unstated"

Tom · Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:04 am *Poem: "Perhaps this could have stayed unstated"*

Hi

I have been wrestling with the following poem for days. Could you please help me understand it? Who is the poet talking to, what is the subject etc?

Tom · Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:06 am *Poem: "Perhaps this could have stayed unstated"*

Tom

Mister Micawber · Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:12 am *Poem: "Perhaps this could have stayed unstated"*

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Its main purpose is to keep the sonnet form and present the acrostic of Balzac's names-- whom I would presume he is talking to. He seems to be talking about the literary gifts of both authors.
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