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How does the author describe the incongruity of an English poet addressing the audience at Gemini Studios?  

Answer:

Gemini Studios made preparations to welcome an English poet. They knew nothing about him. The only poets from England they had heard of were Wordsworth and Tennyson; a few knew of Keats, Shelley, and Byron; and even lesser of Eliot. Then they were informed that he was not a poet but an editor. But, he wasn't the editor of any of the British publications known at the Gemini Studios.   Finally, when the gentleman arrived, the face was equally unknown to all of them. The Boss welcomed him in his speech, yet the audience was at sea. First, the speech was muffled by the sound of the pedestal fans and second, it was in the most general terms and was laced with words like 'freedom' and 'democracy'. The poet's speech was as vague. The audience was quiet. They could neither understand what he was talking about nor was his accent comprehensible. ft lasted about an hour but left them completely baffled. The poet looked equally baffled. His visit remained an unexplained mystery.