05-05-2017, 12:13 PM
Hey nibbed,
Thanks for your feedback. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I always enjoy reading interpretations of my poems. My intention with the last stanza was to show how the speaker's home town is dead through the gravestone simile, and when I say dead, I mean economically. Because of this, the last three lines were supposed to indicate that future generations will have to do the same as the speaker and leave home.
I never thought about the idea of crossing the line, but I like that interpretation too because that can go in a couple of different directions.
Thanks again,
Richard
Thanks for your feedback. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I always enjoy reading interpretations of my poems. My intention with the last stanza was to show how the speaker's home town is dead through the gravestone simile, and when I say dead, I mean economically. Because of this, the last three lines were supposed to indicate that future generations will have to do the same as the speaker and leave home.
I never thought about the idea of crossing the line, but I like that interpretation too because that can go in a couple of different directions.
Thanks again,
Richard