10-08-2015, 04:27 AM
Thanks for the time and responses! On the gardener -- I was referring to a part of the individual's being there, not a part of the holy trinity. The materialistic, world-oriented part, practically a hybrid between ego and id, spirit and appetite, soul and body: sort of like how the gardener character in Louise Gluck's The Wild Iris (I'm obsessed with that book, though at this point I'm somewhat stagnating: TANGENT know of any poets with big collections like that that have the same styles and concerns?) represents the more human voices of the garden.
I'm more wondering on how the poem as a whole impacted y'all, though: this style of writing, heck, this mode of thinking, is completely alien to me. All these weeks of puberty and doubting my academic path and general isolation and reading Louise Gluck and reviewing the Bible and rewatching Adventure Time have finally gotten to me, and now I'm not sure if this mess is even coherent, or at least memorable. Either way, I am sure of what I want to say with this, so even if this didn't make the right sense to you, I will find a way to fix this -- and I do agree that, whatever the point, the whole last stanza, not just that last line, does run rather dull. Again, thanks!
I'm more wondering on how the poem as a whole impacted y'all, though: this style of writing, heck, this mode of thinking, is completely alien to me. All these weeks of puberty and doubting my academic path and general isolation and reading Louise Gluck and reviewing the Bible and rewatching Adventure Time have finally gotten to me, and now I'm not sure if this mess is even coherent, or at least memorable. Either way, I am sure of what I want to say with this, so even if this didn't make the right sense to you, I will find a way to fix this -- and I do agree that, whatever the point, the whole last stanza, not just that last line, does run rather dull. Again, thanks!