I gather you like the poem more than the interpretation.
Mark
At 02:40 PM 3/15/2007, you wrote:
>o do shut up
>
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>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:49:52 -0400
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>It may be that you misread her symbolism. Isn't
>she writing about getting it on with her horse?
>One could ask as well whether it was as good for
>the horse as it apparently was for her. The
>horse, probably, would be too polite to answer.
>
>Mark the Neigh-Sayer
>
>At 01:09 PM 3/15/2007, you wrote:
>>Poetry Daily: Sue Sinclair, "Surrender"I just
>>had to share this - today's offering from
>>www.poems.com. I was so overcome that I wrote
>>the following pointless note to the editors:
>>I just want to say how much I enjoyed Sue
>>Sinclair's poem "Surrender." It is a superb,
>>even an archetypical, example of The Mainstream
>>Poem. It has Light - twice - and the Heart,
>>and Love, and Your Own Wants, and the Real, and
>>even, for no extra cost, the Self! And a very
>>sweet metaphoric Horsey, which must appeal to
>>the pubescent girl in all of us. Looking at
>>"Surrender," any poet burdened with an excess
>>of testosterone or originality can only ask:
>>How can I compete with work of this caliber?
>>
>>
>>
>> Surrender
>>
>>
>> Sometimes the light, a horse,
>> gallops into the room
>> and demands you surrender.
>> It paws the floor, snorts-
>> and so you rise out of the low-lying
>> cloud of the self, the half-dreaming
>> wakefulness we call love,
>> and into the cool air of the real.
>>
>> It shakes its mane impatiently,
>> rears and kicks, its beautiful body
>> demanding your attention,
>> pushing its way in. Not
>> that you're afraid, not exactly.
>> But it shines straight into your eyes.
>> And though the heart is small
>> and cramped, barely large enough to suit
>> your own wants, you retreat into a corner,
>> make do with less. The only
>> possibility when the world lifts its head
>> and light pours from its back
>> in quantities enough to drown you.
>>
>>
>> Sue Sinclair
>> The Malahat Review
>> Winter 2006
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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