Posted by dwight on September 17, 1998 at 09:02:47:
In Reply to: John Clare's "The Winter's Spring" posted by joc on September 17, 1998 at 01:10:26:
: I merely scanned it on line...but I like!
: I like how the speaker alludes to the snow as the
: 'tempest/goddess...
: Beuatiful right down to the last line, a metamorphisis
: for the coming spring: 'nature's white spurts of the spring'
: the imagery encomp a true seducer - from a 'white dove broody wing' to
: 'with dazzled eyes that love to cling'
HA! I notice the 'white spurts of spring' line
also after I posted - and I wondered how I missed
the ual inference the first read! What a strange
line. How can spring have anything to do with male
ejaculation??? I guess he REALLY LIKES spring; )
Does he mean spring-the season, or spring-of the
water gushing variety?
To each their own pion!
love,
dwight