tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post1102243691022272113..comments2024-03-29T00:07:13.458-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: Do People moulder equallySusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-59998015884126942512023-07-17T15:39:00.949-07:002023-07-17T15:39:00.949-07:00In the preceding poem, F389, ED told us, “My holid...In the preceding poem, F389, ED told us, “My holiday [eternity] shall be / That They [my fans]—remember me— / My Paradise [shall be]—the fame / That They— pronounce my name—”. <br /><br />The current poem, F390, continues that thought, “I deny that I am dead and fill my lungs, as proof, from air above my head”. <br /><br />Jesus said, “I say to you that there be standing here a group that shall not taste of death”. If Jesus was sincere, I need not further argue. That statement of the Lord is not controvertible. <br /><br />He told me, “Death was dead”. I am one of those people who shall not die; I will live forever in my poems.<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-90590615781753492722023-05-02T14:15:11.454-07:002023-05-02T14:15:11.454-07:00Hmm, much to consider here. Before I read your tak...Hmm, much to consider here. Before I read your take this read to me as a testament to life, life as something death can't touch, in the moment it is being lived, if the liver fully inhabits the moment. "I do believe a Species/ As positively live as I, who testify it/ Deny that I — am dead —" and for proof? She will fill Lungs, for Witness." . "I have come to give you Eternal Life" may be what she is referring to by Christ proclaiming the death of death. I think she is pointing to her very particular ideas about Immortality, which is has something to do, if I understand her many references to immortality correctly, with the fully felt emotional moment. ("When all space has been beheld/ and all Dominion seen/ the smallest human heart's extent/ reduces it to none.")<br /><br />I do like your goth reading too and the morbid realism of that opening does lead one in that direction. The steam punk tanks is a wonderful stroke of imagination. I did at first take those tanks to be above the mouldering body in the grave. But then I began to wonder if the tanks were the actual reserves of oxygen in our very atmosphere. And the opening question is her way of saying there is no mouldering in the grave in this moment of witnessing life.d scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08242682202760522439noreply@blogger.com