01-01-2012, 03:06 PM
It put me in mind of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner for some reason.
Well aside from the motif that redemption seems little better than despair, there isn't much there in terms of form or setting. The Mariner unintentionally brings about his own salvation in that he "blessed them unaware", whereas the protagonist in this poem is redeemed by what had enslaved him, in an ironic twist, and through no effort of his own,
"Only her self-absorbed suicide did free me".
Coleridge is a favorite of mine, although I am not sure I see much of him in this one, but I'll gladly take any comparisons.
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Should: 'gouged my chest, and beat out my eyes' be 'beat my chest, and gouged out my eyes' ?
If you mean was the reversal unintentional, then no. If you mean is it not reversed to what it usually is, then yes.
Why? I think I had the idea about coming to reality through inverting things, so that hell and earth become the same thing. In other words the solution was not going somewhere else, or getting something. The solution to the problem was in a perceptual shift, because the problem was rooted in the speakers worldview, which is echoed by the line:
"A rabbit hole transport, into a myopic worldview,
for her eyes alone did its topology cue. "
There are some other lines that speak to this.
"using my own convictions to break me"
"A match from Abaddon, a manifested pairing"
"a self-serving illness claiming truth was passé."
""We deceive to survive; we're servile to deceive"."
"as her mirrors were only for 3-D self-views"
"as it is below the same on earth, the truth will hold."
This is an idea that originates with Blake, well at least for me. He says something to the effect of
"when we contract our vision we see multitudes, when we expand our vision we see everything as one."
An idea that for him can be seen early on in the dichotomy of innocence and experience, in the "Songs" and even comes to some resolution in "Tyger", but not completely until the Four Zoas.
There is a line that Jesus speaks somewhere in the Bible where he says, "If you can believe it Heaven is here now."
Neither heaven or hell are places. So literally by changing our minds enough we initiate a perceptional shift that changes our worldview.That can happen all at once, or slowly over time.
Thanks for the read and the comments,
Dale
Well aside from the motif that redemption seems little better than despair, there isn't much there in terms of form or setting. The Mariner unintentionally brings about his own salvation in that he "blessed them unaware", whereas the protagonist in this poem is redeemed by what had enslaved him, in an ironic twist, and through no effort of his own,
"Only her self-absorbed suicide did free me".
Coleridge is a favorite of mine, although I am not sure I see much of him in this one, but I'll gladly take any comparisons.
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Should: 'gouged my chest, and beat out my eyes' be 'beat my chest, and gouged out my eyes' ?
If you mean was the reversal unintentional, then no. If you mean is it not reversed to what it usually is, then yes.
Why? I think I had the idea about coming to reality through inverting things, so that hell and earth become the same thing. In other words the solution was not going somewhere else, or getting something. The solution to the problem was in a perceptual shift, because the problem was rooted in the speakers worldview, which is echoed by the line:
"A rabbit hole transport, into a myopic worldview,
for her eyes alone did its topology cue. "
There are some other lines that speak to this.
"using my own convictions to break me"
"A match from Abaddon, a manifested pairing"
"a self-serving illness claiming truth was passé."
""We deceive to survive; we're servile to deceive"."
"as her mirrors were only for 3-D self-views"
"as it is below the same on earth, the truth will hold."
This is an idea that originates with Blake, well at least for me. He says something to the effect of
"when we contract our vision we see multitudes, when we expand our vision we see everything as one."
An idea that for him can be seen early on in the dichotomy of innocence and experience, in the "Songs" and even comes to some resolution in "Tyger", but not completely until the Four Zoas.
There is a line that Jesus speaks somewhere in the Bible where he says, "If you can believe it Heaven is here now."
Neither heaven or hell are places. So literally by changing our minds enough we initiate a perceptional shift that changes our worldview.That can happen all at once, or slowly over time.
Thanks for the read and the comments,
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.