Original sin :A short story
Upon first reading this poem i believe that it was a spirit haunting the family and the individual and a nightmare that he could not escape. It was a bad memory that he tried to forget that he tried to escape from but always seemed to creep back to him to find him where ever he was. It was with him where he first lived, a spirit with his grandfather and he living his first home made the spirit follow him or perhaps his grandfather sent it to him to remind him of home, a beautiful nightmare perhaps or just a a family curse following the last young soul.
He felt comforted knowing that it was with him in this indifferent place where he felt lonely , a welcome invitation to what he once knew and wanted to loose...there was no escaping from what was there except death..
Upon the second reading of this poem a whole bunch of possibilities came into light .. i still felt that the poem dealt with death in an essence and it represented a side of him that know one knew in the day of time..all his secrets and fears were let out at night when he laid his head to rest. his resentments towards life and joy and his happiness towards death and knowing that others are no longer there. his obsession with cold dark ugly things symbolises his fears and pain and wanting to let this evil out. but he could not for during the day it no longer existed.
Others talked about a woman loosing a child and man going through trying times as he grows up and its haunting , painful memories perhaps.
All this can be true and this indeed opens my eyes to a whole lot of possibilities.
The feelings that is evoked for me from this poem is death ,loneliness and escape.
Upon first reading this poem i believe that it was a spirit haunting the family and the individual and a nightmare that he could not escape. It was a bad memory that he tried to forget that he tried to escape from but always seemed to creep back to him to find him where ever he was. It was with him where he first lived, a spirit with his grandfather and he living his first home made the spirit follow him or perhaps his grandfather sent it to him to remind him of home, a beautiful nightmare perhaps or just a a family curse following the last young soul.
He felt comforted knowing that it was with him in this indifferent place where he felt lonely , a welcome invitation to what he once knew and wanted to loose...there was no escaping from what was there except death..
Upon the second reading of this poem a whole bunch of possibilities came into light .. i still felt that the poem dealt with death in an essence and it represented a side of him that know one knew in the day of time..all his secrets and fears were let out at night when he laid his head to rest. his resentments towards life and joy and his happiness towards death and knowing that others are no longer there. his obsession with cold dark ugly things symbolises his fears and pain and wanting to let this evil out. but he could not for during the day it no longer existed.
Others talked about a woman loosing a child and man going through trying times as he grows up and its haunting , painful memories perhaps.
All this can be true and this indeed opens my eyes to a whole lot of possibilities.
The feelings that is evoked for me from this poem is death ,loneliness and escape.
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