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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Poem found in the margins of a secondhand book

Poem found in the margins of a secondhand book

          (_Everything Arrives at the Light_)

 

“delightful”

sound & light

sound is full of hearing

because the throats are warm

 

-idea of sound and light

-something about something that people

arrive at

 

-drunk

 and

 unpleasant

 

Imagery

 

-more philisophical

- about deficiency of language

 

soul of one newly dead

-relation between life and death

-souls continuing to exist

 

-earthy religion

is bourgeois Christianity

 

-language sing of alienation

 

-allusion to Virginia Woolf

 

-time

-recapturing time

 

-animals spend time occupying W,

then move on to animals again