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I suspect you've never eaten a peach in public Carrol. It is a notoriously messy fruit that can easily do in a pair of trousers, rolled or unrolled, which raises another line to be questioned. What is more interesting is the picture that whole set of lines creates. Cf Portrait: "You have the scene arrange itself, / as it will seem to do." McLuhan called this reader participation poetry. The intervals between images resonate differently for different people. I suppose peach was a handy rhyme for beach. Or vice versa. Public propriety in Edwardian times was starch stiff. The whole scene symbolises a break with such attitudes. Could you imagine what would have harpooned if David debated with himself what size & shape of rock to use on big G. "Through the room...." P On 22 Aug 2015 10:01 am, Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > "Do I dare to eat a peach?" > > Is "peach" a metaphor or, if not, what in 1910ff made it daring to eat a > peach? > > If a metaphor, explicate. Would it simply stand for all utterly trivial > decisions which might require courage? > > Carrol