Friday, January 3, 2003

The Ardennes Forest Comments

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Cup your hands to scoop up sleep
as you would draw a grain of water
and the forest will come: a green cloud
a birch trunk like a chord of light
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Zbigniew Herbert
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Educate yerselves peeps 19 September 2019

Ardennes is a region in Europe where the tiny thing known as the Battle of the Bulge took place.

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Peter Burnett 05 August 2009

Something seems to have gone wrong with the translation of the title (and one line in the poem) . Surely the subject is Shakespeare's Forest of Arden. So, even if the rendering is not technically incorrect, the point has been missed. And this isn't just a literary point, perhaps for this poet the Forest of Arden is a metaphor for his own poetry, an imaginary haven beyond the reach of unjust rulers and a cruel world.

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