11-22-2016, 10:11 AM
(11-20-2016, 06:13 PM)Achebe Wrote: I am thinking of youI like how the ending brings in the element of mortality as an overlapping element to the theme of dying love. 'Shadowy' makes me think of illicit love, while 'unsaluted' feels like there's something noble in it, a job well done that's going unrecognized. This could speak to the ambivalence of the speaker, or it could be a dissonance of meaning. But, I think you sent the scene beautifully, and there's something very universal here.
in the slow train's rolling,
in double glazed harbour windows passing by;
and the stories within them,
the shadowy lives
of unsaluted loversĀ
for whom no bells are tolling.
Meep meep.

