Wednesday, March 25, 2015

No Possum, No Sop, No Taters Comments

Rating: 4.3

He is not here, the old sun,
As absent as if we were asleep.

The field is frozen. The leaves are dry.
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Wallace Stevens
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Susan Williams 09 January 2016

Wow! Did you stop and marvel at this stunning line Snow sparkles like eyesight falling to earth, I kept returning to it, touching its texture, tasting its syllables, and finding that line just as perfect as I did the first time.

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Manonton Dalan 09 January 2016

it's all winter to me... no sun, just snow, frozen field, ice

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Fabrizio Frosini 09 January 2016

Wallace Stevens's poetry is quite difficult to understand - its meaning if often obscure. Let's take the following lines from “Montrachet-Le-Jardin”: What is there to love than I have loved? And if there be nothing more, O bright, O bright, The chick, the chidder-barn and grassy chives And great moon, cricket-impresario, And, hoy, the impopulous purple-plated past, Hoy, hoy, the blue bulls kneeling down to rest. - I'd like to translate these verses into Italian, for a book to be published, but I can't find a logical meaning.. Is there a poet who can tell me what they mean..? Thanks a lot

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Ratnakar Mandlik 09 January 2016

Narration of the nature in winter's severe cold of January is magnificent. Enjoyed the poem. Thanks for sharing.10 points.

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Kelly Kurt 25 March 2015

Your way with words is striking. I felt it all. Thank you for sharing.

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Gajanan Mishra 25 March 2015

bright is the malice, thanks, I like it.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

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