your post brings up this phrase from that poem of 1896 in a.e. housman’s the shropshire lad:

WITH RUE MY HEART IS LADEN
FOR GOLDEN FRIENDS I HAD,
FOR MANY A ROSE-LIPPED MAIDEN
AND MANY A LIGHTFOOT LAD

BY BROOKS TOO BROAD FOR LEAPING
THE LIGHTFOOT BOYS ARE LAID;
THE ROSE-LIPPED GIRLS ARE SLEEPING
IN FIELDS WHERE ROSES FADE.

example of ideas and art of one time,place, meaning applied to new experience (and perhaps altering perception of it)(the way a ritual fetish of one culture remote in time and space may become an object of art in another times and place– a museum — and thus influence generations of young picassos) so quickly and unthinkingly that one does not question the emotion that wells-up. (how ‘this is like that’ gets decided or applied as some objective correlative can only be corrective by a directed exegesis) (though the initial response may never get quite be erased). (the way remembered rime chimes transliterated the way lorca’s “poet in new york” may only be recovered/ exhumed by a literary historian who understands the notations of one language used for another.) ed