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  July 2024     14 days ago

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"one's not half two..."

one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:
which halves reintegrating,shall occur
no death and any quantity;but than
all numerable mosts the actual more

minds ignorant of stern miraculous
this every truth--beware of heartless them
...

– by Edward Estlin Cummings

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Venus

Your cosmic body has eclipsed my heart,
yet there lies a galaxy between us.
So I’ll cross space and give travel a start,
my astral muse, my very own Venus.

Wreathed in cloaks of dust befitting heavens,
stars constellate the expanse of your...

– by Ezra Young

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Venus

Venus


Your cosmic body has eclipsed my heart,
yet there lies a galaxy between us.
So I’ll cross space and give travel a start,
my astral muse, my very own Venus.

Wreathed in cloaks of dust befitting heavens,
stars constellate the...

– by Ezra Young

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good flow and vocabulary without being too verbose, strong ending couplet

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I like the insinuation of a lover being so strong as to will the stars themselves

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i also enjoy the playing around with grammar and tenses to convey emotion as more arbitrary

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the beginning two lines are a great opening to a romance piece

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an interesting piece to play up what reads to me as freckles

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interesting, macabre piece

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i like the personification of rust and its allusion to the inevitability of time crawling forever onward

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the first piece has a really fun cadence when reading it

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the ending line of this piece of one of my favorite lines of any e e cummings poem

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this is one of my favorite pieces by e e cummings, a poem about love being a part of human essence

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i like the meter reinforcing the urgent cadence, especially so quickly within the first few lines of this piece

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the comparison of love transcendent into angels beyond is an interesting personification of romance

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I loved reading about the historical context of Ezra Pound, an interesting story regarding uplifting other poets and elevating them.

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