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(3) Echo's Dream
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Echo Echo's Dream (3)
She dreams of love,
and an offering.
A flower now, one day a ring,
a life full of music
to sing in harmony ..
She dreams of a man,
most beautiful,
who loves only himself,
and is therefore unattainable.
Reality loses prominence,
and the enchanting nymph her grip.
I see you started a serious of these I will be lookin for more of these from u
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She dreams of a man,
most beautiful,
who loves only himself,
and is therefore unattainable.
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I love it!
I love this sequence for several reasons, which I will list in *ascending* order. The subject comes from classic mythology. The sequence of words is very compressed, always a sign of classic (Hellenistic) talent. The tone is not stiffly classic (in the manner of, say, the Loeb Classical Library translations) but utterly contemporary and immediate. And, in this poem, the voice of the Poet strikes two tones: that which proceeds the last two lines, and that which resounds in the last two lines. Because of that two-toned strategy, this poem is, in my opinion, one of the Poet's centerpiece works, and also one of the finest I have read in a long, long time. Rae, I urge you to continue in this style (if not in the particular subject of Echo): the classic content and compression, but the conversational tone. I think it is one of your many fortes, and, writing as one of your fans, I would like to see more of it.
Starward