You Made A Closed Circle. Comments

You cited WONDER as the topic, y-e-s, and it's also the impact of the poem on me. I read this poem very carefully several times, and I find in the last stanza not only the resolution of this poem but it also affirms: vacation, the earth, and the metaphor of self as a god. After these recent stressful weeks at work, you deserve that vacation; your poem transforms the closed circle into a kind of lower paradise of your devising, of which you are the god. This is unusual language for you - this is clearly an inspired poem which swept you along. But embrace it fully. It is a poem which both displays and probes the meaning of CREATIVITY; it asserts the ability of the human mind to conceive an imaginary world; it creates an atmosphere of and sweetness. My favorite work of literature is Shakespeare's luminous last play about such a paradise or closed circle, and Prospero the Magician has shaped it. He is its god in that very narrow sense, but at the end of the play he gives up the power voluntarily. That readiness to give up power means he can be trusted with power. And that's the morality of your closed circle as well. You are not hoarding power or inflating yourself as a god: you are the custodian of a blessed place and share its peace and happiness with all the others. As you can tell I'm on a wavelength with this poem. I am going to re-read it and write more about it.