Friday, January 3, 2003

Winter Trees Comments

Rating: 2.9

The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve.
On their blotter of fog the trees
Seem a botanical drawing -
Memories growing, ring on ring,
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Sylvia Plath
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Gary Hayes 05 February 2009

After a quick look at some of Plath's poems one recognizes all over again how important it is to proof-read poems very carefully. Here a mistake in the last line is more important than the spelling howlers in some of the other poems glanced at. The line should read ' The shadows of ringdoves chanting, but easing nothing'. The frequency of mistakes soon creates a distrust in the reader, in particular when you are looking at a poet you are not familiar with. And before long you have lost another member.

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