04-16-2012, 11:13 AM
Thanks for your kind feedback, Philatone and jmnical
The last two lines of the first stanza were salvaged from a planned longer poem which didn't work out, which is probably why they jar so much.
The experience doesn't make the speaker angry. On the contrary, he feels at peace, which is why anger seems so strange in that moment, because he's serene.
The last two lines of the first stanza were salvaged from a planned longer poem which didn't work out, which is probably why they jar so much.
The experience doesn't make the speaker angry. On the contrary, he feels at peace, which is why anger seems so strange in that moment, because he's serene.
"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