“…A number of critical studies have been devoted to philological and rhetorical aspects of this poem. According to Westerweel (1984: 56), the most important works include Tuve (1952), Summers (1954), Boultenhouse (1959), Walker (1962), Bennett (1963), Hastings (1963), Brown and Ingoldsby (1972) and Higgins (1977). Of course, all of these studies have taken up the close link between form and meaning of the poem; but none has a mention of this link as a case of iconicity.…”