4 Matching Annotations
  1. Last 7 days
    1. And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.

      This line was my favorite line to read. The way sounds so sexual, but it really isn't. Because obviously, you can't plunge one's tongue to another's heart. But the way this is about knowing someone on more than just a surface level. In fact, it is about knowing someone so deeply and intimately that the only way it can be described is by this imagery.

    2. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.

      I believe this line is speaking to things like work, getting promoted, alcohol, food, sex, and the constant want of needing more things. These things seem normal, but the narrator wants us to take a deeper look these things are not 'us' just simply a category we try to fit into.

    3. I am mad for it to be in contact with me.

      I like this line but it also confused me. Based off of the previous line I wonder if this is the narrator being angry with his clothing? Because in the context of the previous line he mentions a disguise and then being naked.

    4. Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

      I really found this part interesting because to be it feels as though once the reader learns nature, they will possess poetry within. The earth is poetry but don't take the writers words for it--go out there and find it.