tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760986403290352152.post6638793876751242651..comments2024-01-23T03:58:02.422-08:00Comments on oriana-poetry: BEING LAPSED II: THE LASTING IMPRINT, PERSONAL SPIRITUALITYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760986403290352152.post-56164571118786027402010-07-14T16:31:49.407-07:002010-07-14T16:31:49.407-07:00Thank you for this interesting analysis. Of course...Thank you for this interesting analysis. Of course I love the final image. This is a poem in itself. I'm trying not to think of a "quaint little wooden cart" as the kind of cart that was used to transport prisoners to the site of execution -- here you can see that darkness never leaves me. That's what comes from having grown up in Poland, "a very haunted place," as Cecilia Woloch says.orianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209366167129773052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760986403290352152.post-73459181992032952782010-05-15T13:46:44.273-07:002010-05-15T13:46:44.273-07:00In her poem “Shine,” Janet alternates between the ...In her poem “Shine,” Janet alternates between the word "shine" as a verb and "shine" as a noun. For me, though, the more interesting thing Janet has done with grammar involves working with ellipsis to effect compression and even suggest a secondary meaning. The first line, “To shine is to be god is to be clear blue sky is to be enough,” could have been written, “To shine is god-like, since a clear blue sky shines and we think of God as up there in heaven; so shining seems to me to be a sufficient way to think of God.” But then you wouldn’t have had a poem! Another interesting part of the poem grammatically is, “. . . the Hindus have blue-skinned gods to remind/how blue disappears each night returns each day.” The reader seizes upon the most obvious meaning of the last line here as, “Blue disappears each night and [blue] returns each day.” But leaving out the conjunction "and" suggests a second meaning. “. . . each night returns each day” means that night also brings back the day. This made me chuckle, as I actually saw Night as a small man wheeling in Day, a young girl hunched in a quaint little wooden cart.Marjorie Rosenfeldnoreply@blogger.com