High in the mountains by a deep ravine
inside my massive block, enclosed, alone —
but then brought down and stripped, I now am seen
against my will and destitute of stone.
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As we all feel at somtimes!
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i dnt rly get this one
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ooooh.....I really like this. I like how it is short yet still very satisfying as a poem.
I creates quite the image in your head when you read it.
Therefore, I say very well done and just like everyone else, keep writing. Oh, and I agree, the shorest deep (and effective)poem I have ever read. -
i got that he was mad that he was seen in his motion of work and that he was never going to caver that marble for its whole identity was shown.
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Short but good. Sympathetic and deep. The shortest deep poem I have ever read.
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Michelangelo was in fact referring to a block of stone in a mountain quarry that contained one of his statutes yet to be sculpted – he often went to the quarries to supervise the removal of the stone he would use – and it is the finished stone statue stripped bare that is speaking in the poem.
On several occasions Michelangelo implied that he didn’t carve or sculpt his statues – and that the statue was in fact already inside the rock, he simply cleared away the excess material to reveal what was already inside the stone. - Albert
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OOH! Freakishly sympathetic....me, I mean...There's a lot in such a short work...amazing...
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This evokes feelings of empathy towards the vunerability expressed, excellent write!
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