- Nov 2024
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“Myth is dead!” “Long live myth!”
narrative tone, but somewhat effortless. not to say it seems easily strung together, but just no additional adornments/frills
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Picks up her glass. She has a glass, with coffee, ice and milk in it.
simple basic words. easy to understand. no unnecessary words or even descriptive words
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- Oct 2024
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Suddenly everyone, ceasing their talk, sat in a row around him, watched they did not so much hear, or pay attention, they wondered, looked at each other, smirked, but listened, he repeated and repeated, could not go beyond his thought “The pool the kingfishers’ feathers were wealth why did the export stop?”
this section has a kind of rhythmic flow that the beginning of the poem feels like its trying to find
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There were very many who were wanting to be ones doing what he was doing that is to be ones clearly expressing something and then very many of them were not wanting to be being ones doing that thing, that is clearly expressing something, they wanted to be ones expressing something being struggling, something being going to be some other thing, something being going to be something some one sometime would be clearly expressing and that would be something that would be a thing then that would then be greatly expressing some other thing than that thing, certainly very many were then not wanting to be doing what this one was doing clearly expressing something and some of them had been ones wanting to be doing that thing wanting to be ones clearly expressing something.
the entire piece, specifically this sentence, is an example of the overall theme of the piece, which is also the repeated refrain of "clearly expressing something" and the consideration of the content expressed. The structure of this sentence presents concrete ideas but in a difficult-to-digest form (long run-on sentence, basic/filler words repeated often) Is the content about clearly expressing something being clearly expressed? if someone is clearly expressing something in a way that is not clear, does that take away the something of the thing expressed?
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Some said he was not clearly expressing what he was expressing and some of such of them said that the greatness of struggling which was not clear expression made of him one being a completely great one.
the humanity/the struggle makes him more human, more convincingly great
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Nearer in fairy sea, nearer and farther, show white has lime in sight, show a stitch of ten. Count, count more so that thicker and thicker is leaning.
very abstract imagery, very intuitively written. Reminds me of poetry I've written that made sense to me but I've scrapped because it would be gibberish to others, but it's interesting to be a reader and to try and unpack the speaker's garbled thoughts.
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mule-dung, flies—
brings me back to "bugs mean mules"
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HERACLITUS: "The waking have one common world But the sleeping turn aside Each into a world of his own." I keep telling myself what I really like Are music, books, certain land and sea-scapes The way light falls across them, diffusion of Light through agate, light itself . . . I suppose I'm still afraid of the dark
many sections feel like they stand on their own, large contrast between these two stanzas
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There were very many who were wanting to be ones doing what he was doing that is to be ones clearly expressing something and then very many of them were not wanting to be being ones doing that thing, that is clearly expressing something, they wanted to be ones expressing something being struggling, something being going to be some other thing, something being going to be something some one sometime would be clearly expressing and that would be something that would be a thing then that would then be greatly expressing some other thing than that thing, certainly very many were then not wanting to be doing what this one was doing clearly expressing something and some of them had been ones wanting to be doing that thing wanting to be ones clearly expressing something.
the entire piece, specifically this sentence, is an example of the overall theme of the piece, which is also the repeated refrain of "clearly expressing something" and the consideration of the content expressed. The structure of this sentence presents concrete ideas but in a difficult-to-digest form (long run-on sentence, basic/filler words repeated often) Is the content about clearly expressing something being clearly expressed? if someone is clearly expressing something in a way that is not clear, does that take away the something of the thing expressed?
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Some said he was not clearly expressing what he was expressing and some of such of them said that the greatness of struggling which was not clear expression made of him one being a completely great one.
the humanity/the struggle makes him more human, more convincingly great
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Nearer in fairy sea, nearer and farther, show white has lime in sight, show a stitch of ten. Count, count more so that thicker and thicker is leaning.
very abstract imagery, very intuitively written. Reminds me of poetry I've written that made sense to me but I've scrapped because it would be gibberish to others, but it's interesting to be a reader and to try and unpack the speaker's garbled thoughts.
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- Sep 2024
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Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
the description of the face highlights the sculptor's skill level/craftsmanship, in turn further implicating the importance of the king depicted, while telling us about him through descriptive imagery (wrinkled lip, sneer of cold command). emphasizes importance/power held by king, also shows vulnerability (half sunk, shattered visage). reinforces central message of time conquering power
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The Child is father of the Man;
children should be looked to for guidance, or more so, to understand how to be joyful. man does not understand, but chid does
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This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
let the infection of 'sadness' take over the body, let the speaker's soul grow to combat
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For hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
joy from elsewhere, not the speakers yet felt as real is if it were
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New-moon winter-bright! And overspread with phantom light,
new woman
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And think that thou shalt learn far other lore And in far other scenes!
frost at midnight is a frozen piece of time, the babe will grow up to experience 'other seasons', i suppose
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motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, Making it a companionable form,
the flame sympathizes with the speaker
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the thin blue flame Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not; Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.
even the flame of the fire is calm, unquiet
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This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings-on of life, Inaudible as dreams!
so many people, so many unknown dreams. strange like the peaceful infant
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Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.
infant or midnight frost? It?
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save that at my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.
not entirely alone as he cradles his infant, yet he sleeps peacefully
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The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, Have left me to that solitude, which suits Abstruser musings:
awake alone at night
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The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind
the land is frozen over, slowly without being noticed.
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Alas, alas, who’s injured by my love? What merchant’s ships have my sighs drowned? Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?
'why should I stop loving, who does it hurt? who has complained?'
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Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honor, or his grace, Or the king’s real, or his stampèd face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
"shut up and leave me alone"
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,
ABBA (near rhyme for last A)
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We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short; and our dayes run As fast away as do’s the Sunne:
similar to "to the virgins to make much of time"
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Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
vibration is an interesting word to describe a passionate sensation
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Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
BBB rhyme scheme
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Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.
consonance of the 'S' sound makes me think of the sharp cuts of the silk flowing like water.
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Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.
AAA rhyme scheme
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Into a fine distraction;
line throws off flow
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown
consistent meter, reads like a poem
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And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.
marry while you are young, if you wait until you have faded from your prime you may wait forever
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But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former.
following youth, life gets worse
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That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer;
the early days of life are the best
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting.
the higher and brighter the sun gets, the closer it gets to going away. (the further we reach into life, the more we live and learn, the closer we come to 'the end')
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying;
pick flowers/ find joys of the world while you can, time is still on your side/ you still have lots of time left
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And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
youth quickly shrivels, aging happens daily
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Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part.
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A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility:
AABC (though B and C nearly rhyme, Nearly AABB)
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An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher; A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribands to flow confusedly;
ABCD (although A is a near rhyme to B, and C is a near rhyme to D, we could call it nearly AABB)
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction;
A, A, B, C
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