her shaved head
where and why is it that he chooses to separate a stanza mid-sentence without capitalizing? I know it's a stylistic choice, perhaps even an experiment, but like it's completely absent in the first half of the poem and then suddenly appears out of nowhere, why?
ike a stored cask, as if its slender vowelHad mutated into the night earth and air
slender vowel? wow, super into that also, "mutated into the night" ?? why oh Why that choice of word?
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super interested in this overwhelming use of em dashes which is like almost totally absent from the other poems? why here?
sinless, foodless.
interesting comparison between sin and food - the relationship between one's physical needs and one's religious needs
blution,” he said, aloud, taking pleasure in the
this entire paragraph reminds me a lot of portrait, and I mean there's generally been a theme in all of our readings of people that particularly enjoy how words feel on their tongue, but the whole "he could do without people, people were a waste" adds even more stephen-like
expiring
interesting choice of word here, I've never seen it used in this context before
ruthers McDaid is a man I created one night when I had swallowed nine stouts and felt vaguely blasphemous. I gave him a good but worn-out mother and an industrious father, and coolly negativing fifty years of eugenics, made him a worthless scoundrel, a betrayer of women and a secret drinker. He had
eugenics? these lines are so obnoxiously written, and i have no idea how eugenics fit into any of this, but they catch my eye
ow can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
He has such an interesting use of adjectives here, specifically "terrified vague fingers" and "feathered glory" and "loosening thighs" and "the strange heart"
And hens to moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live:
Interesting play with both sound and rhyming, I am interested in how often he does this and what the thought process behind it is.
he wind rising from the south and west. He won’t go this day, for the
there seems to be a certain lyrical aspect to the way they speak, like the repetition with “he won’t go this way”
enough yo
i attempted to figure out what the word “turf” means in this context and i can’t really figure it out but there seems to be different kinds of definitions, like “turf-loft” vs “turf enough” so i’m kind of really interested in this word