tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post5182863986386681746..comments2024-03-28T11:04:36.401-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: Of nearness to her sundered ThingsSusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-41265002539849379292023-05-29T15:15:36.035-07:002023-05-29T15:15:36.035-07:00In the previous poem, F336, ED told us from now on...In the previous poem, F336, ED told us from now on she would watch life from her writing room, not outside “Where other creatures put their eyes— / Incautious—of the Sun —” because it’s “So safer—guess—with just my soul / Upon the window pane”. <br /><br />Apparently her plan is working: “The Shapes we buried, dwell about, / Familiar, in the Rooms —”, “Bright Knots of Apparitions / Salute us, with their wings —”.Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-49620368678812748822020-07-25T11:11:45.879-07:002020-07-25T11:11:45.879-07:00Good question! That extra long second line in that...Good question! That extra long second line in that stanza really stretches out the time that must be waited, so the extra feet parallel the meaning. I think that if the lines were footed in the hymn meter the third line would be awkward. Certainly 'remained' and 'mourned' are the slant rhymes and it is just, as you bring to my attention, the line breaks that are non-standard. <br /><br />So I don't have an answer except for thinking about all those pronouns in the last stanza and how that might have complicated line breaks -- as well as the happy lengthening of the wait line.<br /><br />Thanks for pointing this out!Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-65242662607979707942020-07-25T09:12:35.695-07:002020-07-25T09:12:35.695-07:00I think ED would have loved “Lincoln in the Bardo!...I think ED would have loved “Lincoln in the Bardo!”<br />What (if anything) do you make of the line breaks in the last stanza? The meter is perfect only if you impose your own imagined line breaks - after “remained” and “they”. Is this a purposeful distancing/confusing device? To what purpose?Pphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023162636086533197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-80236031838062816312016-07-02T21:20:03.338-07:002016-07-02T21:20:03.338-07:00Thank you so much for this explication, Susan! I c...Thank you so much for this explication, Susan! I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. ThIs information helps me enormously to grasp this poem. AND it makes me realize that I need to be more diligent about turning to the ED Lexicon for help with these puzzles.Birdwatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15409714616948921849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-21073646026518383792016-06-24T08:12:14.523-07:002016-06-24T08:12:14.523-07:00It's interesting, particularly since she uses ...It's interesting, particularly since she uses "sundered" in the first line. It's as if at death the dead are sundered from the living -- but not from other dead. There's an organic web of them whose existence seems to intersect with the living and entwine with each other.<br /><br />I checked with the ED Lexicon that provides the dictionary meanings of the time:<br /><br />A) Association; unifying bond; interrelationship of events; merging of experiences; [fig.] end; finish; closure. <br />Fr416/J423 the Months have ends – the Years – a knot – / No Power can untie<br /><br />B) Cluster; clump; mass of entwined elements; bundle of organic material; [fig.] form; intricate pattern. <br />Fr337/J607 Bright Knots of Apparitions / Salute us, with their wingsSusan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-23152129904582782892016-06-23T23:06:12.431-07:002016-06-23T23:06:12.431-07:00I wonder what the "Knots" look like in &...I wonder what the "Knots" look like in "Bright Knots of Apparitions". I wonder why ED chose the word "Knots" here. <br /><br />Anyway, this is a lovely poem, with a fairy-like, lifting air that is matched well by the illustration you paired with it.Birdwatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15409714616948921849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-47649202730987833652015-01-17T08:32:15.029-08:002015-01-17T08:32:15.029-08:00Well said. I don't think I grasped the poem th...Well said. I don't think I grasped the poem this clearly – with the insight you describe – when I wrote the commentary.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-32508882708351680992015-01-17T08:11:09.196-08:002015-01-17T08:11:09.196-08:00Again one of her mystic and poetic instructions: t...Again one of her mystic and poetic instructions: the eternal details in memory are always fresh if we are not afraid of stepping into our own deaths; beautiful guidance for most of us who shy away from our own shadows so sadly never receive the what the Grave yields back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com