Quite strange. Have you seen any thorough analysis of it? Something to help parse the historical references? Seems absolutely odd that an anti-war poem would promote the sovereignty of the Thing over the Human. Surely an objection to the war would need to elevate the Mexican?
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My reading (amateurish, as it is) is that the piece is only sensible if read with more or less the same despairing irony that we read twitter hot takes with today. He is lamenting the disparate senses of cosmic order which separates human concerns from property concerns.
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and that, of course, concerns of property (and state power) tend to win over the concerns of humans. The Mammon Machine rules triumphant, as usual.
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This makes sense, especially given the last line about the astonished muse. He has hope against 'the law of thing' or 'the mammon machine' as you put it.
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