Oh Beautiful,
I've heard of you.
What could you do
to a man of science?
Oh, no!
What simple lines
could you recite
while bending so?
Is melancholy
this new to me?
My hand will shake
if I just let go..
jam07
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Re: jamh
by Free Thinker (not verified) on Mon Dec 31, 2007 09:47 AM PSTThanks.
Your explanation helped.
I don't know if explaining
by jamh on Mon Dec 31, 2007 09:38 AM PSTI don't know if explaining a poem is a good thing or not. You can just read it, a little slow, a little loud, and see what impression it leaves.
But since you asked, here is the explanation. After all, it is such a little thing.
There are three quatrains. The first is expectation, but also reluctance or resistance. It is coming from a rational point of view, as opposed to the second one, which is encounter, an encounter that draws him in in spite of everything. This is the plane of the feminine. Its attraction cannot be easily explained, you fall and you don't know why, because the fall was coded through milleniums, through species, through the absolute laws of attraction. The last one is reflection, and regret, and helplessness. He has fallen, in more ways than one.
Enjoy.
What?
by Free Thinker (not verified) on Sun Dec 30, 2007 08:13 PM PSTWhat???