> What’s always impressed me about this poem is its conception of civilization as an individual entity. You can almost see him, with his fingers of armies and h

> What’s always impressed me about this poem is its conception of civilization as an individual entity. You can almost see him, with his fingers of armies and his skyscraper-window eyes. Ancient Greek had a term for the concept of this kind of entity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore