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fandomsecrets2022-03-23 05:20 pm
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[ SECRET POST #5556 ]
⌈ Secret Post #5556 ⌋
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[The Mystic Nine]
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He's calling at the door of a deserted house and the questions tumble through my mind. How long did it take him to come back to 'keep his word'? Why/how is everyone gone? It seems to have been important -- why did it take him so long to come back? What happened?!?!?
I'm with you, OP -- digging at my curiosity (for about 55 years), but never to be satisfied.
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I found this, which doesn't explain, but is still a good read.
https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/walter-de-la-mare/the-listeners
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I don't have much exposure to de la Mare, but this one has stuck with me since childhood. I guess it's the unanswered questions that stick in our minds.
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This is the one that stuck with me forever, basically. The stanza that starts 'When the green field comes off like a lid' is what was quoted in WD, and it gave me chills.
http://figures-of-speech.com/2018/01/furies.htm
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When I was in 6th grade, my teacher would write a poem on the board (every other Friday), we'd copy it into notebooks, and needed to be able to recite it the next Friday. A lot of old classics -- The Tyger by William Blake, The Way through the Woods by Kipling, and I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood are three that stick in my memory. I even wrote a fanfic based on "The Way through the Woods", many, many years later.
Poetry's fun, isn't it? <g>
Apologies for the late reply. I wasn't in a good headspace, and bounced off the poem the first two times I tried to read it. But this morning I can appreciate it, and yeah... powerful.
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That is so very cool! I wish I'd had a teacher who did something like that. Poetry did not figure into any classes or teaching at all, that I can remember.
My godmother/aunt worked at a publishing company, and sent me books from time to time. One of them was Maxine Kumin's 'Up Country', which was the first book of poems I ever owned. I still love those poems and read that book to this day.
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There was also Thomas Hardy and Congreve and Robinson Jeffers, Dylan Thomas and Jane Austen and Aeschylus...all things I hadn't known before, and the bits of which presented as epigrams made me just want to read *more*.
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made me just want to read *more*.
*nods* Yep; that's what good authors and their writing do for us.
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