03-25-2016, 02:31 PM
(03-25-2016, 02:20 PM)RiverNotch Wrote: Sorta stabs me in the heart, but i'm not entirely sure what it means -- it feels kinda incomplete, like there are two lines missing. Then again, I've been reading Dickinson voraciously (relative to my usual rhythms) for the past few months now, so....Incomplete bugs me. Thanks for the input.
It was going to look like this...
Generations
a grandmother now
her tear anoints the angel
and makes a boy of me
but I wanted to cut as much as I could. I'm not sure. I think you're right. The last line is perhaps too subtle as is.
Thanks
Paul
**Edit... I haven't connected the grandmother to the "me". There is no relationship established between her and the "N". Thx for helping me figure that out. Seems obvious now.