Are we imprisoned to the future and the past? It is "fixed forever" but does that constitute us being prisoners?

little system wheels and golden gears

sudden change from depths to heavens

so very deep

like to the depth to the ocean???

twist and twirls- bringing it back to the snail theme

Maybe do like clams do when they make pearls?

I had no idea what Fusiturricula meant or was....??? I googled it (and also read other classmate's annotations) and it's a type of sea snail. So a lullaby for a sea snail?? I am eager to read the rest of the poem with this information. Intriguing.

imperial door

where particularly

of empire?

Villanelle

Tercets (not a triplet bc not all of the lines rhyme).

Refrains (lines 1 & 3).

This is my favorite line of this poem. We as people, we as poets are build on sonnets.

It seems the whole poem the narrator is so concerned with what his lover thinks of him, or what the audience thinks of him, or people in general. I find it interesting he's pointing out at this point "call us what you will." Seems ironic and that adds interest in my opinion

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