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Originally posted by Martin Rocek:
Is this too end-stopped? Too clear or too unclear?
The lightning-split oak
is leafless this summer; she calls
herself widiot.
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Martin, the longer I think about this the richer it becomes. The split oak is a figure for the man who has died; the widow is blaming herself for not knowing things--I think it must be for not knowing, in the husband's absence, how to take care of things--or is she also blaming herself for the deaths, the tree's and the man's? It seems to me the very opposite of end-stopped.
I only ask myself if there can be such a thing as too heavy a dependence on one word. "Widiot" is so full...