Nómada's Wires Comments

There's something in this poem I missed in my first reading. This poem is a cautionary poem concerning the very imaginative flights I like so well n Florette and Chantelfleurie. Nomada's experience shows the danger of letting go of the handholds of reality. It's like an astronaut on a space walk who suddenly realizes his tether has broken and he travelling helplessly through space. Well, that's an extreme example but you dramatize Nomada's crisis as extreme. If you speculate on her future. do you think she will be drawn back, and continue her flights of the imagination or will she pull back out of fear? I'm torn on this issue. I would pull back, but I hope Nomada does not.

Part Two Stanza 5 shows us what Nomada is afraid of - repetition, dull, steady, unchanging. This is the way it HAS TO BE for her. If the real world held variations, ebbs and flows, ups and downs, it would not justify her flight, so she has to reduce it to monotomy. In stanza 7 we see the the turn of events that terrify the people concerning her imaginative gambits, namely, SHE WAS TRAPPED IN THE WIRES OF HER OWN IMAGINATION. This is a terrifying moment because it means the faculty which promotes adventure, creation, freedom, creatures, wonders, fragrances cannot rescue itself. It must BE RESCUED. Such is the world or worlds of this poem. Choices made eliminate other choices, but choices must be made. eople

The way you characterized Nomada and her surrender to a life of daydreams the ending was both believable and necessary. She has been toying with the idea of dreaming herself out of existence for some time. But by the time she has the opportunity to so the prospect is suddenly so confining and narrow, rendering her immobile. There's some skillfully paced action drama as she severs the threads thereby gaining her freedom and losing her dreamworld. In both the real and imaginative worlds you can never do just one thing, because things themselves are meshed together and (changing the POV) things interact in ways....