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Lady Grace
(9/17/2009 11:05:00 PM) |
this 4-lined piece is very nice..pain, heartaches, loneliness can be seen in this poem but am pretty sure, the author was very inspired writing this..
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Shornjoe Crockpotter
(9/17/2009 5:30:00 PM) |
The beauty of this little gem, to me, is hiding in the phrase 'dear patience of my pain'. The phrase is an apparent contradiction since pain is anything BUT patient...in fact it is known for its impatience! In this poem the poet is hopeful even confident that his lover who has returned will NOT leave him again. He credits his patience and long suffering with producing this result...thus the term 'dear' referring to patience. To prove this to yourself try reading the poem without the second verse at all....see. There is a little problem with us being able to rejoice with the poet in the return of his beloved, however. She has returned not bodily but 'in the patience of his pain' meaning she now lives for him only in his pain. His long suffering(patience) is now a sort of curse. She simply haunts him and the only thing he can really hold 'dear' is his own patience which has produced this result and brought her back to him....even in this cursed way. Yep, he's a sick puppy....but a good poet.
see ya down the road
sjc
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Akachukwu Benjamin Chukwuemeka
(9/17/2009 4:43:00 PM) |
from my understanding of this poem, the man is in pain for a lover that left him, now the lover is back and he's afraid she will leave again causing even greater pain. after all his patience, he is afraid of what he has waited for.
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Obinna Eruchie
(9/17/2009 8:57:00 AM) |
Kevin, there is no grammatical error. And I do not see any difference from the arrangement you have suggested. May be you want the rhyming scheme to go aabb. Mind you, he is expressing himself. Perhaps he meant it to be an inversion, nonetheless he wrote an interesting piece.
According to the voice of the poem, he asked the old flame, who had left him, a question that has she come to him to restart the relationship they once had, all over for him to go through that can worsen the pain she has given him, after breaking his heart, which he has endured? If so, it is better she should leave him alone to endure the pain. Simple for a reader to go through and understand.
This was written by a poet who died more than a hundred and twenty three years ago. What he has written is poetry (when the language is usually condensed) , not prose, he has explained himself, and this is enough for the reader (there has to be analysis while reading) to derive some meaning out of it to come up with his or her own conclusions.
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Albert Ahearn
(9/17/2009 8:32:00 AM) |
This quatrain demonstrates that it isn’t necessary to write volumes of verse to convey a message. Brevity is essential in capturing the attention of the reciter.
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Kevin Straw
(9/17/2009 5:52:00 AM) |
This poem is complete. There is a grammatical problem I think. To make better sense, the 2nd line should be the last so the poem would read:
AT last she comes, O never more
To leave me lonely as before,
Or leave my soul alone again.
In this dear patience of my pain
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JOE POEWHIT
(9/17/2009 5:25:00 AM) |
Like an old sailor, waiting for a ship that left port years earlier.
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(9/17/2008 11:47:00 PM) |
yeh should have written more
watever hes great
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