06-24-2012, 10:53 AM
Thanks for your kind feedback Addy
"You" is one person, "your" (in the second verse) refers more generally to all of mankind. I put "can" because I intended that line to be present tense. Souls are being tortured in hell as the narrator speaks.
Thanks for your kind feedback Bilbo The poem is written from the perspective of Satan, and more specifically a Satan believed in by a puritanical Christian. See above for why I put "can".
"You" is one person, "your" (in the second verse) refers more generally to all of mankind. I put "can" because I intended that line to be present tense. Souls are being tortured in hell as the narrator speaks.Thanks for your kind feedback Bilbo
The poem is written from the perspective of Satan, and more specifically a Satan believed in by a puritanical Christian. See above for why I put "can".
"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