Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Once again, we see and individual terribly unable to communicate with those around them. One difference here is the use of line breaks to again make the flow of the lines be broken and awkward, almost allowing the reader to hear the stuttering narrator stumble through his words. Also strange is that the silence is perceived by the narrator as the “heart of the light.” Normally, we would liken silence to darkness, but here, paradoxically, it is actually viewed as the heart of the light. In the middle of the light there is said to be a dark loneliness.
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WOW! i would have never even seen the silence as the heart of light. that totally went right over my head….lol
Of course it did gemmah =]. I liked the connection between how the lines are broken up and how that sounds, and then you drew the conclusion that the speaker is unable to communicate with people. Fun, fun.
Jeff, I like the connection about the lines being broken up and how that represents a sound, like Ashley said. Its almost like the reader is meant to hear the words instead of reading them,and they are definitely “stumbling” and broken like a stutter.
This is a great poem. It realy feels like whoever reads this poem is truly on the brink, stumbling, gasping for those last few words.You might want to go through though and review I do see a few errors here. Also you might want to go back and see if you can find more connections with these lines throughout the rest of the poem.
I know everyone already said it, but that is a solid connection about the lines being broken up and the representation of sound. Short, but gets to the point, good blog my friend.
When I think of this poem and picture it in my head, I could see how he could stutter a lot. Almost as if he’s at a loss of words and can’t describe his true feelings.