Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Widow On The Beach Comments

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Tell me, Perdida, why you scratch
at the foam like a heron choosing crabs.

Certainly, you know the tide
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Dr. Charles A Stone
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Thomas Vaughan Jones 22 February 2014

Questions which provoke yet provide the most intangible answers. I sense, and this is only an exploratory attempt to interpret the poem, that this widow lady is perhaps the wife of a sailor long lost to the cruel sea. Or perhaps a lonely woman contemplating ways in which to end it all. Like all good blank verse, questions are posed and the reader has to come to his own conclusions.

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Dr. Charles A Stone

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