[Dr. Eckleburg]

Very nice...very assonantal.

Your Blue Period?

[JesseShurun]

this poem was written at the height of Jesse's blue period, when his thoughts had become steeped in this cold, melancholy colour. Most of the people in the blue period poems are beggers, prostitutes or convicts reflecting the sadness of some parts of society and their lack of any place in the world.

The old Jew blind, destitute and a member of an outcast race, epitomizes the suffering with which Picasso, um, I mean Jesse,,was obsessed at the time. In true romantic fashion he seems to have belived that, as an artist he was rejected and despised.