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Original poem reprinted online here: "Blue Hanuman" by Joan Larkin Originally read: May 15, 2013 More information about the Poet: Joan Larkin There's a merge between the art and the representation.  The actual and the interpreted here shifts through how the image is presented mixed with Hanuman -- a Hindu deity in the Ramayan.  So the question, for me at least, is how much of the allusion do I need to know in order to "get" this poem. Well, allusions in the title and the first line usually telegraph how much information a reader needs.  Since the title is "Blue Hanuman" the focus is more of the adjective and how it interplays with the noun which further developed in the first line, "A four-armed flutist took me" -- note how the allusion works here, the adjective alludes to Hanuman while the flutist adds a different sense of the allusion as does "Blue" does to "Hanuman."  This is how the poem merges the actual and the inte...