Fic: . Archie and the Tyger a sonnet

[nodbear]

This sonnet is part of a larger piece which is the menagerie fic series where Horatio and Archie and their colleaguse

Comments

[eglantine_br]

So beautiful, and so much more painful because of course Archie is like the tiger-- and had himself been caged. His rage is one with his compassion.

I don't know how you do it. To boil the essence down to 14 lines-- it is a whole other skill I think.

[mylodon]

Hear hear. It always leaves me stunned, how our beloved Nod can just produce these things and they are so...perfect.

Many thanks.

BTW SUFTUM!

[nodbear]

Thank you Mylodon

I think they swish around in my subconsious as fragments nad periodically surface

have to confess SUFTUM!! had defeated me :) - sorry

[charliecochrane]

Stand Up for the Ulstermen.

And we did.

To little avail.

[anteros_lmc]

Beautiful. Archie's sorrow, compassion and suppressed rage really shine through. Just as they do in our lovely eglantine_br's latest fic. The tygers of wrath indeed.

[eglantine_br]

I think they need get some alone time-- A and H. Don't you? I think it may be time for a refit (snarf.)

[anteros_lmc]

Oh yes, definitely! Laid up in ordinary...to quote another of nodbear's wonderful sonnets.

[nodbear]

Yes - Archie is having mixed reactions although in the context he is in a good place - admiring the outline of Horatio by moonlight - but the tiger has stirred up a rush of love , pity and anger combined.there is a splendid greek word used in the gospel of MArk splagchnizomai which means to be moved by love and anger deeply - a visceral feeling .
the English often says" moved by compassion" which does not cut it really. i had that word in mind when Archie was at work on this sonnet .

[esmerelda_t]

Poor Tiger indeed, I can quite imagine Archie feeling an affinity for the beast.

[nodbear]

Yes tiger and Archie fellow feeling certainly.