Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Apparation

This poem took me sometime to get but once we got the ball rolling today in small groups it all seemed so clear. It's a bit of an odd premise, but they haven't broken up yet. However the speaker says that when her "scorn" kills him he's going to haunt her. It's a bit ludicrous but I guess it makes sense? Maybe the speaker is concerned about their relationship so he is trying to threaten her to force her to love him. This doesn't really strike me as the best strategy to pacify a failing relationship but hey it's his relationship, not mine. Something makes me think that it might be logic like this that has gotten him into this kind of trouble but that's neither here nor there. The whole part about when she's with her future lover seemed kind of premeditated and strange too. He is saying that when he is haunting her, if she tries to get her lover to tell her he'll just roll over and pretend to be asleep since he'll think she just "wants some more" for lack of a better phrase.

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