Wow...thank you so very much...you not only read but you inquired and really left your thoughts behind. So for that I cannot thank you enough.
Ok...so the Q'n'A...
Why was the silence naked?
I wrote it that way for the simple fact that some silence can be so deafening it leaves you feeling naked and raw.
Did you purposely choose crater like over
crater-like?
Yes, for no more of a reason then the fact that I wanted separation, as that was what I was feeling between us.
Is there a reason the only "I," used as a personal pronoun, that you capitalized is the start of the second stanza?
Only that at that very moment I felt like a fool...feeling like I had the wool over my eyes and I'm big time allergic...for the rest of the poem I felt small and wasted and that one line was my empowerment.
I'm happy to have someone take the time to really read and understand and ask...
THANK YOU.
It's a complicated feeling in the poem. I didn't want to make it easy for people. PArt of it is to let them just read it and experience it as a happening. A moment... an instant of real life and make them think about it. About life and eros and thanatos.
EL,
In Memoriam is a sonnet. I wrote a sonnet because sonnets are a love form and I wanted to convey that, at least to myself and a reader who understands the sonnet. I wanted to convey that I loved this dead frog on some level. Also, it is a real occurance and yes I wanted to make the ocurance mean as much as I could get out of it. I beleive real life accidents and images have as much meaning in them as the most symbolic dream.
I'm afraid I don't get the sense of self sacrifice. In the second to last stanza a finally get a sense of something giving up a higher place to "experience" a lower state, but only to experience it, not for some lofty ideal such as self sacrifice as I understand the word. The last stanza also does not lead me to think of heroic self sacrifice. In that regard, I think you need to either completely rewrite the last stanza, or leave it out completely.
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