09-08-2015, 11:33 PM
Well, this is annoying -- the damn poem is stuck in my head. It's the ellipsis, I think... and if I might Say sooner or later it will be tonight, that I finally have to say goodnight. You should know by now how I love you: I've had forever to speak, and, if I might, Say "sooner or later it will be tonight, that I finally have to say good night. You should know by now how I love you...."
That might be reading it wrong, but it's a good effect for me, if, again, a wee bit annoying. Though it is a bit odd, in that reading, that the speaker would say that he should soon say goodnight, and not just say goodnight, but the disconnect feels natural, a sense of the apprehensive or astute medium behind the speaker's silent love, silence, especially with the symmetry created by the somewhat disconnected (and thus, in terms of being quote or saying, ambiguous) third stanza.
Oh great, now it's really stuck in my head. Now I'm gonna sleep like that time I binge-listened to Madonna....oh God, in my dreams, I thought I was falling, into the groove, proving I was a ray of light, flying into the good feelings of the virgin's insides....
That might be reading it wrong, but it's a good effect for me, if, again, a wee bit annoying. Though it is a bit odd, in that reading, that the speaker would say that he should soon say goodnight, and not just say goodnight, but the disconnect feels natural, a sense of the apprehensive or astute medium behind the speaker's silent love, silence, especially with the symmetry created by the somewhat disconnected (and thus, in terms of being quote or saying, ambiguous) third stanza.
Oh great, now it's really stuck in my head. Now I'm gonna sleep like that time I binge-listened to Madonna....oh God, in my dreams, I thought I was falling, into the groove, proving I was a ray of light, flying into the good feelings of the virgin's insides....