Deliberates on the relation between aesthetics and ethics, based on the essay `Aesthetics: The Mother of Ethics?' by Marcia Muelder Eaton. Interpretive variations by Eaton on poet Joseph Brodsky's metaphor; Idea of the interdependence of aesthetics and ethics by Eaton; Understanding the mother metaphor of aesthetics as the observation of a poet; Failure of Eaton to grasp the relation of aesthetics to ethics.