Charles Tomlinson, English Poet (b. 1927)

I was just reading some of the poetry of Charles Tomlinson, and the second section of his poem "A Garland for Thomas Eakins" struck me as particularly fine:

II

Anatomy, perspective
and reflection: a boat
in three inclinations:
to the wind, to the waves
and to the picture-frame.
Those are the problems. What
does a body propose
that a boat does not?