Thursday, January 1, 2004

Nostos Comments

Rating: ★3.1

There was an apple tree in the yard --
this would have been
forty years ago -- behind,
only meadows. Drifts
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Louise Gluck
tree childhood lyric
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Mahtab Bangalee 21 October 2020

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory./// superb and fantastic poem penned /// It is in this memory that the human mind goes back and finds a way to survive

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Georgia Bobryk 08 October 2020

Great finishing thought. Reminence of Robert Frost

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Fabrizio Frosini 14 October 2015

nostos (νόστος) = homecoming from a long journey

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Colleen Courtney 14 May 2014

Such a beautiful poem. Nice imagery.

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Louise Gluck

Louise Gluck

New York / United States
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Louise Gluck
New York / United States
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