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• Last seen on Apr 30 2:46 AM 2008. Member since February 14, 2006.
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• on Dead Love by Mary Mathews Adams, on May 29, 2007

  She was married twice. her first husband was a publisher by the name of: Alfred S. Barnes -
  Her second husband was named: Charles Kendall Adams - who was an educator and historian. He also served as the second president of Cornell University in the late 1800's before the turn of the century.
  
  Some have stipulated that this poem is of the two; both of them dying before she did. However, this is not the case since the poem was written in 1900 (or before) and her second husband died the same year she did in 1902.
  
  So, I'm thinking that you probably are correct.
  
  My contention has always been that it was of an unborn child from her first marriage that she may have miscarried and why the stone is "unmarked" - so-to-say.
  
  But, the speculation that it's of another "lover" is what is common amongst those who have studied this poem.
• on Hymn 12 by Isaac Watts, on February 2, 2007

  Yes, I know this but my perception of Watts' is stating in that verse is that -- from his point-of-view -- they are nothing more than "atheists" since they do not believe that Christ is their Lord and Savior.
  
  
• on Mating by D H Lawrence, on February 1, 2006

  I didn't care too much for the last 3 verses, they made my mind wander away from the beginning of the piece which seemed to be quite picturesque and held my attention quite vividly. Like I was looking an oil painting being painted with words and not a brush stroke. But then it just seemed to wander away from that point-of-view and became something else, something that seemed to hold a society or a philosophical look to it and I felt it just became dreadful after that.
  
  Oh well.
  
  
  
• on Venus's Looking-Glass by Christina Georgina Rossetti, on February 1, 2006

  I really do not have a comment for this piece. I read it, I think that that's good enough. But I just really want to acknowledge that I read it.
  
  There's nothing really coherently wrong with it, it has a nice rhyme pattern and the story is okay but that's basically it, for me.