| User | lhl | | Topic | yarn of pearl | | Message | What’s the meaning of "yarn of pearl" in Dickinson’s poem? |
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| User | Blue Monk | 2007-11-05 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Pearl is a metaphor for a spiritual truth, it was also used as such by Jesus in "cast not your pearls before swine".
Yarn is cute because it can mean a story, or it can also mean interlocking threads used to tie things together or to create something with. In this case it might even mean both. Clever?
All in all, this can be translated into deep stuff.
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| User | alteredlife | 2007-06-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | * I meant "coarser" oops. |
| User | alteredlife | 2007-06-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I’ve never read it, so I couldn’t tell you. Perhaps post it here?
Even without reading it, it sounds like a wordplay on ’string of pearls’... woollen yarn being of a courser nature than string; also, it might be playing on the colloquial meaning of having a yarn, which means to have a conversation. |
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