11-11-2012, 03:49 AM
I totally agree with poet. In many cases, its the ambiguity and incompleteness that makes a poem a poem. That's what makes you read it and contemplate what it could be. At first, "two travelled one, hand in hand" called forth in my mind's eye, two lovers walking together holding hands, conjoined in one form in their silhouette. When the "you" came in, I couldn't think of anything, but it challenges your imagination to feel the words and imagine.
Many poems are about feeling and imagination, not about the words. I think those are my favorite kinds of poems.
Aha! I just read it once more, and I imagined one thing the "you" could mean--I could imagine the silhouette of a couple walking on the beach at night-time. I envision the man of this couple has a faint reminiscent feeling in his heart of a love he has not quite gotten over, and he has written this poem to her. Because this woman still has a place in the man's heart, he feels her spirit floating with him and his current love, in between the land and the moon, and his former love is one by herself, but because she is with him in his heart still, they are still two.
I think that is a beautiful and touching image. My apologies to the poet, though, because I don't know what he actually intended it to mean. But you can see how leaving details and words out can create a beautiful and moving image and feeling in your imagination. You don't need to tell people what to think and what to understand all the time.
Many poems are about feeling and imagination, not about the words. I think those are my favorite kinds of poems.
Aha! I just read it once more, and I imagined one thing the "you" could mean--I could imagine the silhouette of a couple walking on the beach at night-time. I envision the man of this couple has a faint reminiscent feeling in his heart of a love he has not quite gotten over, and he has written this poem to her. Because this woman still has a place in the man's heart, he feels her spirit floating with him and his current love, in between the land and the moon, and his former love is one by herself, but because she is with him in his heart still, they are still two.
I think that is a beautiful and touching image. My apologies to the poet, though, because I don't know what he actually intended it to mean. But you can see how leaving details and words out can create a beautiful and moving image and feeling in your imagination. You don't need to tell people what to think and what to understand all the time.