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sl1ckn1ck
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since 2006-05-09
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0 posted 2006-05-09 10:16 PM


I need help on analyzing this poem, its for a test, and well i dont know too much about poetry, i pretty much only need a line-for-line interpretation.

The fiction of relationships:
It is cold. In this weather
Things break.
The road signs are painted black.

In the root cellar,
The potatoes are
Growing their skins
Thicker, white roots sprouting hopelessly

Into darkness, into
Rootlessness. As I do,
As you do.
I had a brother once,

In one other time.
Who was he
Whose skin was less
The outer layer,

And who, even
In the surest weather,
Wore his clothes long
And deep

Lest others see
The curious quick welts
Left from even
The most casual touch?


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the_girl_next_door
Senior Member
since 2006-02-26
Posts 591
USA
1 posted 2006-05-09 10:20 PM


ok.. well.. I love poetry.. and I love to analyze.. but this just didn't seem to read into me.. I had to analyze a sonnet earlier this week and usually I'm good at this kind of stuff but I think I'll have to read into this one a bit more..

Good luck..

~Heather

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing & you will have everything.

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