Another thing that perplexes me is that the final two lines of S1 & 2 establish a pattern that runs into the next stanza: "with distance, in the distance / Faintly in the distance" and "dream the world, from the world / Or the two worlds"
Then it is partially abandoned "cockatoo, forty-two / By June" Then even that is given up in the next stanza, but returns in part when we reach the penultimate stanza "between pines, bare northern pines / and after a time."
Chris, I thought poets and editors always behaved like the nicest of the nice.
(I got interrupted and haven't checked out the tips from Dean yet.)
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