Wednesday, March 28, 2007

l (a
le
af
fa
ll

s)
one
l

iness


There is no typo- error here, it may not look like a poem but it is a poem. You can say the author is unorthodox but I' m impressed with his style of writing. He keeps the traditional style of poetry writing in this poem and I can say that the essence of poetry really requires analysis. This might not be easy to understand without knowing the title but we can analyze it by looking every details.

Let' s start on how it is arranged. The words are not in their proper places because it has been disarranged. If we arrange the poem vertically, we would be able to read it like this:
l(a leaf falls)oneliness’, the author inserted the phrase ‘a leaf falls’ between the letters ‘l’ and ‘o’ and I think there' s really one leaf that falls and is separated from the tree and the other leaves. This leaf might be the one that falls in front of the author while he was lonely and decided to write it in the poem he was writing. It could also be the author that relates himself to the leaf. So, if the leaf was a person he or she would feel lonely because he might be left behind or separated from the people he or she was with for a long time.

I think his reason for this structure would be the emotions he felt while writing this and why it is hard for us to understand is because his deep personality that belies. This would be just a poem he made to make the lonely ones get busy annalyzing it. Don't you think so? Just let your playful mind work in this. Sometimes we do not have to think complicately in complicated things, we just have to speak out our opinions with it...

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