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  • Last seen on Apr 14 2:43 PM 2006. Member since February 14, 2006.
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    I can't recant today's unfair attack
    finally I comprehend my numbing demoralization
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    A stained picture losing its good intentions
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    Candlelight flickers shattering the shadows.

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  • on At Home from Church by Sarah Orne Jewett, on April 14, 2006

    She's At Church

    She's in the middle of a day dream while she should be singing the hymn. She's wishing she could be home on the nice spring day but realizes everyone is at church and it would be lonely, so she drifts back to the church from her home in a kind of out of body dreamstate, where the stain glass windows (blue and red) signal that she is inside the church and has to re-focus on the preacher and her place in the song. This of course is a christian analogy which is so simple, even if you drift away from god you can always return to him and remain in favor, when the robin cries for rain but once or twice and then is done is her way of relaying how god will gently remind you of this.

  • on At Nightfall by Charles Hanson Towne, on April 14, 2006

    Clever Analogy

    Towne is using the analogy of heading home to see his loving wife as a way to express his belief's in heaven and the creator when he dies. He plays with the reader with words like "quiet", "strife", "things above", "haven", etc... quite the clever turn of phrase.

  • on The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats, on June 10, 2005
    I'm just throwing this out....Perhaps Jesus was the beast that put an end to paganism, hence the sphinx stood for 20 centuries before Christ. I don't know if Yeats was a freemason or not but the poem is sprinkled with that kind of doublespeak. Falconers, sphinx, sand, ceremony of innocence...
    The sphinx is creeping slowly across the sand to exact its revenge on Jesus, it is the Second Coming of Paganism(the rough beast), not Jesus. Maybe the falconer and falcon reference is more closely related to taking one's eye off the ball, christianity will only last until the falcon returns.