CANTO ONE: "slain/By"

[David Morris]

--- gumbo at fuse.net wrote:
> 
> > 
> > "Feigned remoteness" suggests an 'agency" absent in the first example.....I
> 
> Well, sort of. Certainly "feigned" suggests a purposeful act. "Remoteness"
can be read as either emotional or physical distance.

If we take it as feigned emotional distance, that would imply that the
windowpane wanted tha contact...  :)

> It is the illusion of physical distance that brings the bird to grief, but
the content of the reflection in the glass is the product of optical
principles, not some choice.

Why do you have to get all literal on us now?  This is poetry, durnit.

DM

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