11-22-2010, 08:11 AM
(11-22-2010, 07:12 AM)Touchstone Wrote: Oh, maybe I do get it now. The "...woman whose house it belongs to...," is the mother?Actually no, she was just a random woman, inserted to add density to the metaphor. But that's a good interpretation, Touchstone; as I wrote in my reply to Billy, sometimes the reader has a better idea of what a poem is about than the poet himself.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe