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May 31

Dear folks,

Here is the morn - I have most of all my question answers written out or outlined, so I know just about how ell or poorly I shall do [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] for Dr Gwynn.  Herb was a help in organization Sunday night.  He has a remarkable (to me) discipline of mind which enables him on the moment to [[strikethrough]] analyze [[/strikethrough]] reach the main points of an argument and state them clearly & concisely, where my mind rather tends towards suggestive obliqueness.  [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]] The exam deals with an elaborate explication of [[strikethrough]] fo [[/strikethrough]] two poems ([[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] which we have had to prepare for by doing all 4 poems from which he will choose), and two essays, one on a major poet, one on all the poets.  This latter I am weakest upon, not having had the poets before or after to frame my poets with.  Gwynn is not too nice, and clarity above all things shall impress him.  In the explications of the poems, for example, his clinging to meticulous detail shows his lack of grasp.  In the first part of these we are supposed to give a literal, line-by-line translation of meaning.  Nancy Carroll has nicely begun her adaptation of the first line of Hopkins' poem ("Look, look, up at the stars") with "Regard, regard, the astral spheres" -- (However, he is wary, and we had better be careful what words we utter this morn)

It is remarkably cool here these days, cool - rainy or cool and clear: so still winter coats are worn; none of, your thin dresses have a chance.

Duffy came over for a 2 mile walk Sun eve before Herb: a good-bye, he leaves for [[strikethrough]] Europe [[/strikethrough]] Germany with the Friends the first of July.  He graduated with honors, but does not care for Harvard at all.

Love, 
Doris