On 04/02/2008, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> It's comforting to adopt a point of view after the disaster, whether
> social, nuclear, or ecological. A poet can thereby escape all the fear,
> thirst, hunger, pain, and killing, including his own, while seeming to warn
> about them. Beneath this poem is a well-worn Romantic conceit: "I shall be
> one with Nature, stone and tree."
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comforting? that's an interesting point of view, I'm not sure about it.
warning? I don't see a warning in the poem, merely a spacetime snapshot of
the inevitability of the decay and destruction of all things. The poem
merely describes, does not comment. Comment is left for the reader.
Personally I enjoyed the surrealistic echoes, the language, of this poem but
did not have any strong reaction to it. It seemed like something I had read
before.
Janet
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