do not make this wind our hangman
the sea where our souls are soaked
and our hearts are buried,
where they cannot find us.
the sea where our souls are soaked
and our hearts are buried,
where they cannot find us.
So what do you make of this last stanza? What is the poet trying to say?
Anyone would like to comment on the use of punctuation too?
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*drumming my fingers*
umm...
The tone of the last 2 stanzas changes rather significantly. During lesson we said that the tone of the 2nd last stanza changed from resignation to resolution. in the last stanza the tone is an optimistic one, which creates the impression that he was confused/in a dilemma earlier but the poet straightened out his thinking at the end.
I don't know why the wind is a "hangman", since it is not tangible, but the word "soaked" implies that the sea is drowning the souls, so maybe it means that he wants to change the fact that he is at the mercy of the sea??
perhaps the lack of punctuation in the first 2 lines mean that "make this wind our hangman", "sea where our souls are soaked" and "our hearts are buried" are considered together, so he does not want all 3 to happen instead of like... er... only one of them happening?
somehow the full stop at the end gives me a sense that the poet has a note of finality in his tone.
i don't know what to make of the rest.
oh yes, anyone knows the significance of the colour red in "time, between the stretches of a red imagination"?
[1st stanza 4th line from the bottom]
Finally, someone is responding to my post.
Before I give my two cents worth, would anyone like to respond to weisin's post?
can you explain stanza 4 ?
hi!!!i actually have to write a paper on this poem..would u mind helping?
hi there :P
nice comment
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