Friday, January 3, 2003

Dearth Demise Comments

Rating: 2.9

Satiety help me I have inhabit
of this world. Extant upon its designs
to be more aimlessly fluttering at
the window, to shadow all the patterns
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Bill Knott
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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

ADDITION: The poem also makes use of alliteration, with the repeated use of the 'd' sound in the phrase 'dearth demise.' This alliteration creates a sense of unity and coherence in the poem, and it helps to reinforce the central theme of the poem.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

Congratulations to the family of the late poet being chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Modern Poem Of The Day. Last but not least I wanna add these last lines to this amazing poem

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

or spend more time solving it, all the metaphors. It really is a poem with a language from long ago. A beautiful poem as only Knott can express it.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

There is a message spoken here, with similes and flower language, we just have to think what the poet meant with this poem. Excellently worded, but not every reader will understand this

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

the subjects ranging from ecocide to the degradations of age to meditations on the sword of Damocles and Rilke's archaic torso

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

identifying the simple style of some poems and the "highly-torqued syntactic compression" of others. In The Unsubscriber, she found "the mode alternately heroic and vernacular, .

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Sylvia Frances Chan 27 October 2023

About Bill Knott, I will tell here what the North American critid said: ritic Meghan O'Rourke noted the variety of forms in Knott's poetry,

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Anil Kumar Panda 02 October 2019

Very nice poem indeed. Enjoyed thoroughly. Thanks for sharing.

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A great poem by Bill Knott

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Dr Antony Theodore 02 October 2019

arm movements, the body language throws. Thus the shape of your silence when it speaks me is different than mine in saying you, a very fine poem. tony

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Mahtab Bangalee 02 October 2019

demise of this world with phantom wings fluttering aimlessly at the window of hope for living but there the dearth of wailing wall......! ! ! ///

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Kumarmani Mahakul 02 October 2018

A poem on demise nicely executed. Beautiful poem by Bill Knott..

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Edward Kofi Louis 02 October 2018

Help me! ! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 02 October 2018

Such a great poem by Bill Knott.........................

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