May 17, 2022·edited May 17, 2022Liked by Torben Robertson
Love this analysis. I like the lack of punctuation at the end of the first line. "Hushed literary revenge," is lovely, soft "sh" and "g." Literature/art more generally as a place to save face and rewrite the past makes a lot of sense. I think of Proust re-writing his whole life so that he won every interaction--not by having his protagonist resemble him and having genuine social victories, that rarely happens, but by the agency and charm of his forcible redescription.
I love the dissection, making the elusive clear. I guess that your mother has become a poetic metaphor, like your asthma….. I believe she wanted, always, to hear everything you said😉❤️
Love this analysis. I like the lack of punctuation at the end of the first line. "Hushed literary revenge," is lovely, soft "sh" and "g." Literature/art more generally as a place to save face and rewrite the past makes a lot of sense. I think of Proust re-writing his whole life so that he won every interaction--not by having his protagonist resemble him and having genuine social victories, that rarely happens, but by the agency and charm of his forcible redescription.
I love the dissection, making the elusive clear. I guess that your mother has become a poetic metaphor, like your asthma….. I believe she wanted, always, to hear everything you said😉❤️
Brilliant poetry lesson. So interesting! Thank you. 😊