Mar 112010
I was reading through some Frost last night and came across a clever little poem.
Iota Subscript
Seek not in me the big I capital,
Not yet the little dotted in me seek.
If I have in me any I at all,
‘Tis the iota subscript of the Greek.
So small am I as an attention beggar.
The letter you will find me subscript to
Is neither alpha, eta, nor omega,
But upsilon which is the Greek for you.
– Robert Frost
In short, this poem represents Frost’s view of self, which is that of a servant, putting others above and before him. Good stuff.
(I feel very haughty and stuffy right now; mixing Robert Frost and a foreign language… please forgive me)