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Beestie · 03-07-2006, 06:31 PM

I have never been able to explain poetry. I can barely read it.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-07-2006, 07:21 PM

Nobody can explain poetry, Beestie. Being far from straight forward communication, everyone that reads it will conjure up different images, have their mind strike off on different tangents and end up with an experience that's unique to them.

lumberpoet · 03-08-2006, 07:24 AM

sadly missing recognition
loved, unloved, unrequited
racing time, life escaping
fleeting love, breifly tasting
settle into death together
it's not at all about the weather

mrnoodle · 03-08-2006, 10:56 AM

marichiko's is more accurate than mine. but there are still elements of what i was saying, because anyone isn't just one person, it's every person. Any individual in the town can fill the place of "anyone".

Except that stanza with the children in it. that throws a monkey wrench in my whole theory. I have an alternate Santa Claus theory (spirit of Christmas, whatever), but i can't write today.

lumberjim · 03-08-2006, 06:24 PM

here're 113 more opinions about it.

Cyclefrance · 03-08-2006, 07:03 PM

I'll stick with my life cycle interpretation - the abstracts noone (no-one) and anyone are to my mind just a way of describing how we don't know about other people that aren't close to us. This is typical of the life of everyone and life in general. We may see the same person on the train every day (anyone) but they have no significance for us nor we for them - but there is someone close to them (and us) who does - as anyone is to noone. We just get on with our own lives, and even in these lives events come and go - maybe some are significant at the time but these are seldom remembered for long, except when with those who are close to us. Isn't this true of every life and every generation, and, what's to make it change?

03-07-2006, 06:31 PM	#1
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	I have never been able to explain poetry. I can barely read it. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

03-07-2006, 07:21 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Nobody can explain poetry, Beestie. Being far from straight forward communication, everyone that reads it will conjure up different images, have their mind strike off on different tangents and end up with an experience that's unique to them. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-08-2006, 07:24 AM	#3
lumberpoet forsooth Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37	sadly missing recognition loved, unloved, unrequited racing time, life escaping fleeting love, breifly tasting settle into death together it's not at all about the weather __________________ "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest". -William Shakespeare

03-08-2006, 10:56 AM	#4
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	marichiko's is more accurate than mine. but there are still elements of what i was saying, because anyone isn't just one person, it's every person. Any individual in the town can fill the place of "anyone". Except that stanza with the children in it. that throws a monkey wrench in my whole theory. I have an alternate Santa Claus theory (spirit of Christmas, whatever), but i can't write today. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-08-2006, 06:24 PM	#5
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	here're 113 more opinions about it. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

03-08-2006, 07:03 PM	#6
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	I'll stick with my life cycle interpretation - the abstracts noone (no-one) and anyone are to my mind just a way of describing how we don't know about other people that aren't close to us. This is typical of the life of everyone and life in general. We may see the same person on the train every day (anyone) but they have no significance for us nor we for them - but there is someone close to them (and us) who does - as anyone is to noone. We just get on with our own lives, and even in these lives events come and go - maybe some are significant at the time but these are seldom remembered for long, except when with those who are close to us. Isn't this true of every life and every generation, and, what's to make it change? __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

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