there I go again, pretending to be you

[devilsball]

Narrow paths my passions tread: Laughter rings there, sorrow cries; Sick and sad, with half-shut eyes, Thro' the leaves the woods have shed,   My sins like yellow mongrels slink; Uncouth hyenas, my hates complain

Comments

[liquid_topaz]

Hm. A bit more difficult than your average poem. Nothing we learned in Advanced Literature, to be sure.

The meaning doesn't nearly stand out so much as the personification of emotions and the pieces that make up humans, for better or for worse. Although perhaps therein lies the catch and the poem has less meaning and more symbolism of what passions and love and hatred can be. Sometimes that has more value than meaning itself. Especially as meaning can be ever so elusive to the average reader.

Intriguing, at least, although perhaps he is better appreciated as a playwright. Not everyone has Frost's eloquence and depth or Whitman's sense to turn stories to poetry simply by cutting lines off in the middle, but I digress.

[liquid_topaz]

I'm flattered. I believe it has something to do with his poems being a bit ... obvious in their meanings. Makes thinking a bit less difficult and that's all the average reader truly wants. A pity, really.

Hm. Have you?

[devilsball]

Truly.

Nothing unsavory, I promise.

[liquid_topaz]

Would it be incorrect of me to assume that the one spreading all of the vicious rumors is Matt?

[devilsball]

Hm, might be.

[liquid_topaz]

And would you be the elusive roommate with a penchant for sweets?

[devilsball]

That would be me, yes. Less sweets, more chocolate.

[liquid_topaz]

Although chocolate tends to be sweet. Unless you like the bitter kind.

[devilsball]

No, the sweet kind, but sweets was too broad. I only enjoy one.

Do you like chocolate, Edward Cullen~?

[liquid_topaz]

Fair enough. Chocolates, then. Any kind?

Not as ... such.

[popcornlasers]

Edward! Eat him! He wants to use his psychopathic ninja to make me think I'm five and female!

[liquid_topaz]

An interesting change from a tiger cub, to be sure.

[devilsball]

I think it will suit him, don't you agree?

[liquid_topaz]

That completely depends upon whether or not he'll wear a frock.

[popcornlasers]

TRAITOR.

[liquid_topaz]

You can hardly say that before the question's answered.