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Subject:Who and When From:doug montalbano <doug_montalbano -at- CC -dot- CHIRON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 31 Mar 1995 08:44:50 PST
I canna seem to shut up today, begorrah.
Charles Desaro asked about the use of 'Who' in a poem and asked if
'When' would be better.
I believe 'Who' is correct. The confusion may derive from the fact
that "when" is implicit in the "with victory in sight" phrase
structure. If I write the phrase out in full, substituting for
'with' I get:
"... lay the bleached bones of thousands who,
[when they saw]= [with] victory in sight, sat down ..."
