Echoes of Desolation

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  Vixility

  Below are the notes I took on your poem as I read through the September collection:
  
  “The title intrigued me way before I read it. What will it be about? War? Armageddon or some post-apocalypse aftermath? An Allegory of despair? What? And then I read it, and guess right. This deeply haunting and profoundly desperate poem is about depression and its lonely world. It is an allegory of despair, wherein the narrator is lost and without means to escape. The theme of of darkness (“thick as tar”) and starless night reminds me of these desperate lines from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”:
  
  No light, but rather darkness visible
  Served only to discover sights of woe,
  Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
  And rest never dwell, hope never comes
  That comes to all …”
  
  I appreciate the rhyme-scheme the poet adopts and respect the meter of the finalized work (although I could feel the poem ‘wanted’ to be written in iambic pentameter). Overall, this poem is a remarkable work of art.
  
  I might add, if the poem is autobiographical I hope the poet has emerged from the darkness it portrays, and attains healing in the writing of it
  
  Again, this person is a gifted writer. more »

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  motto78.mo

  I've lived that struggle

  LikeReply 16 months ago