05-04-2013, 04:59 PM
@Brownlie
Ennui? Weariness, Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest, boredom or will power to do anything about it: So could also be taken as tedium or displeasure. Thus, I read this as a picture / image of the tedious predictability of aggressively blond hair as a symbol of female attractiveness contrasted with perhaps the ridiculous predictability of a male scalp of hair perhaps thinning and unable / un-willing to support the image. At this stage of the poem I read the voice as registering disgust and disapproval for the behaviour.
(As to your comment about getting used to gay people, that is not really relevant to reading or critting the poem. It happens to be the voice of the poem and as such this is just the discernable persona, what the actual poet is or is not, in my opinion, should not affect how a poem is interpreted).
@ Heslopian Sorry about the above comments I appreciate you didn't ask me to but in. (They are of course JMHO
) Also re the crit on my dead before death. Many thanks (I did not post my thanks on the thread because i did not want it bumped back into the list as I'm not in a place to work on this at the mo. But i really appreciated your comments and will deff be adding in some dashes and taking on board some of your other advise when I do - thank you for your time and thoughts.
AJ.
Ennui? Weariness, Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest, boredom or will power to do anything about it: So could also be taken as tedium or displeasure. Thus, I read this as a picture / image of the tedious predictability of aggressively blond hair as a symbol of female attractiveness contrasted with perhaps the ridiculous predictability of a male scalp of hair perhaps thinning and unable / un-willing to support the image. At this stage of the poem I read the voice as registering disgust and disapproval for the behaviour.
(As to your comment about getting used to gay people, that is not really relevant to reading or critting the poem. It happens to be the voice of the poem and as such this is just the discernable persona, what the actual poet is or is not, in my opinion, should not affect how a poem is interpreted).
@ Heslopian Sorry about the above comments I appreciate you didn't ask me to but in. (They are of course JMHO
) Also re the crit on my dead before death. Many thanks (I did not post my thanks on the thread because i did not want it bumped back into the list as I'm not in a place to work on this at the mo. But i really appreciated your comments and will deff be adding in some dashes and taking on board some of your other advise when I do - thank you for your time and thoughts.AJ.