Who is the "you" in Durem's "I Know I'm not Sufficiently Obscure"?

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In this poem
Durem’s speaker grants that he does not write poetry that is intellectual and replete
with poetic ornament such as imagery, but rather he believes in poetic commitment—the
poet who expresses outrage and advocates change. The “you” of these lines is a group of
conventional poets and critics who, in the speaker’s eyes, write poetry—and also write
criticism of it—as though poetry should be removed from life, with no political purpose.
In addition, the speaker’s words denigrate imagery that in his eyes creates obscurity
rather than meaning. The fact is, however, that the speaker does indeed express himself
through imagery, such as the woman of line 9 and the soldier of lines 13-15.

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