BlueIris
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Mon Apr-21-08 12:29 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/21/08 |
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"Conversation"
"Yet with a slight shift of will....," Confiding she couldn't say no to her mother. Still. Even in the dream. Then insisting on declining the half of a ripe fig her friend offered and she wanted.
—Carol Snow
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Mon Apr-21-08 02:37 PM
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Westegg
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Mon Apr-21-08 02:44 PM
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2. It reminds me of "This Is Just To Say".... |
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...by W.C.W.
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast.
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold."
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Mon Apr-21-08 02:50 PM
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3. Since you mentioned that one... |
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what do you think that particular Williams piece is "about"?
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Westegg
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Mon Apr-21-08 04:08 PM
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6. I wrote a great response... |
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...and then I went to check on a Robert Motherwell reference and when I came back my post was deleted. Sorry. I can't duplicate it. Not now. I'm still too fucking angry. The internet acts a certain way most of the time, and then it acts a different way other times. And I lose what I wrote. Fuck you, Al Gore. Time was, a fella just put pen to paper. I wish I knew that time.
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Mon Apr-21-08 11:53 PM
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7. Oh, hon. That is terrible. My connection has been wonky today, too. |
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The reason I asked is because I had this crazy AP lit teacher back in the day who insisted that "This Is Just To Say" was the proverbial "morning after" poem; a speaker "apologizing" for deflowering someone, basically. My 17-year-old self thought that was brilliant, but I've never been able to get any actual academics to substantiate this interp. All of the profs I mentioned it to during undergrad looked at me strangely when I told the story.
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Mon Apr-21-08 03:08 PM
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Nice!
She had to refuse her friend...
Because of her mom?
The things we do, to show our independence...
Thank you!
:hi:
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Mon Apr-21-08 03:11 PM
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5. Huh. I read this as a poem in which a subject reveals how her mother's |
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care left her conditioned to deny herself. But your interp works, too, of course.
Carol Snow has this amazing ability to construct poems that are somehow hyper-focused and expansive enough to contain several layers of meaning.
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