10-30-2014, 02:33 AM
It isn't called Consolations, it's Compensations, so everything in the poem is pretty cheap. The speaker is one of those people, he isn't thirteen but was not so long ago, that feels old things are more real and more spiritual and more true. Books are more real and true than movies, generic witches, ghosts, ouija boards are more authentic than ones sold through household names. The speaker isn't thirteen but was. And one of the lines could as well have went: New and old--from being new a long time. But I'm glad people are interested enough to take the time to read and consider things. Even when it's cheap.