Old Guns. Edit 2. billy, todd et al

[tectak]

HI

may I ask

why do you start with 'you are my comfort now'
and end with
you will be my comfort.


StalkeR

hi stalker,
Luckily, I have the answer!
The poem is written in reverse narrative in that by stating in the first instance that the gun is no longer for protection the reader must read on to find out why. The narrative then gives history a go, hopefully explaining the gun's role change. The closing lines are then portentous.,......the time has come. The gun must do the deed.
You couldn't write this the right way round as that would introduce death before delivery It would also be pedestrian as it has been done to death.
Best,
and still alive,
tectak

I see##so in the opening line why is it not

you have been my comfort? - I don't get a sense of the passage of time the way it is now.

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Oh perhaps at last I see - he is reminisicing and then he uses this old faithful to blow his brains out.

sorry maybe I am thick but I did not get that at all - death as consolation? hmm

is an escaoe from discomfort the same as comfort?

YES!!!