tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post5048854237570775523..comments2024-01-04T02:20:14.170+01:00Comments on Chamber of Secrets: "Prayer", by Carol Ann DuffyTheklahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10068144182099086220noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-87009154801587821472022-07-22T17:18:15.859+02:002022-07-22T17:18:15.859+02:00Hello matee great blogHello matee great blogSan Mateo Vacuum Repairhttps://www.vacuum-repairs.com/us/vacuum-cleaner-repair-california/san-mateo-vacuum-repair.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-33600916454195547062015-05-03T17:04:44.397+02:002015-05-03T17:04:44.397+02:00This prayer speaks to me of past and lost days, a ...This prayer speaks to me of past and lost days, a memory and a thread that runs through my life, youth and motherhood old age and the joy of all that I have and haveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06305842731889715458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-46577766660841101052015-05-03T17:04:34.712+02:002015-05-03T17:04:34.712+02:00This prayer speaks to me of past and lost days, a ...This prayer speaks to me of past and lost days, a memory and a thread that runs through my life, youth and motherhood old age and the joy of all that I have and haveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06305842731889715458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-74852079093122294542015-05-03T17:01:59.143+02:002015-05-03T17:01:59.143+02:00This prayer speaks to me of past and lost days, a ...This prayer speaks to me of past and lost days, a memory and a thread that runs through my life, youth and motherhood old age and the joy of all that I have and haveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06305842731889715458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-77269306417083793282011-01-02T15:49:47.358+01:002011-01-02T15:49:47.358+01:00Thank you, Rukhiya. And very welcome you are :)Thank you, Rukhiya. And very welcome you are :)Theklahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10068144182099086220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-41930109472616104182010-12-25T19:24:23.164+01:002010-12-25T19:24:23.164+01:00Thekla, I stumbled upon your blog while I was look...Thekla, I stumbled upon your blog while I was looking for a Wallace Stevens poem 'The Plain Sense Of Things' and I am enthralled- Both by your collection and the lovingly detailed notes that go with each. I do not usually like to read poetry analysis but the kind of thoughts you seem to pool for the note makes for interesting reading. Thank you for writing so beautifully and this treasure of a blog. Will frequent this place henceforth :)Rukhiyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04897939481017216825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-43907580895649815492010-11-04T13:24:47.164+01:002010-11-04T13:24:47.164+01:00Yes, that is one of my favourite sentences in this...Yes, that is one of my favourite sentences in this poem too. It's like she addresses emptiness, silence, a vast and valuable aloneness in this way - manifested by the call for a dear one, who is not present in this poem. We are left with the longing feeling of it, the closeness of an absence, so to speak. <br /><br />Not trying to be a sphinx here ;), but emptiness and the like is very hard to describe with words. Though Duffy does just that, in such an opening way.<br /><br />Thank you for commenting. <br />TTheklahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10068144182099086220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689671.post-5187347740295964782010-11-04T02:18:30.516+01:002010-11-04T02:18:30.516+01:00"...Then dusk, and someone calls
a child'..."...Then dusk, and someone calls<br />a child's name as though they named their loss."<br /><br />That's just lovely. I can't think of the number of times I've heard someone, at that time of day, calling a child's name just that way. The sound of it, by itself, evokes for me the coming of evening.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.com