Prof. Heberle on THAT poem

which still confuses me, though I suspect Chris and Stri are righter than
I was...

I don't know the poem, but she seems to me an apparition--a slightlybedraggled Muse (she gets less attractive in every war) who allows thewar writer to bring something "positive" out of the experience--his lifeand his poetry.That's my guess, for what it's worth. She's always near a bridge maybebecause she's come from somewhere outside the war herself or because she'salways keeping the surviving writer alive when he thinks or thinks he seessomething other than the war?Mark