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By bwoz
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25 February 2007 |
Forgetting Is like walking on an isolated frozen lake. You find yourself searching the farther shore, lonely where no one else crosses Remembering Is like a mug of hot chocolate and a sandwich in a kitchen where a dim radio tells the news and someone left a note. I wish I could forget And still have the sandwich |
Written by Talisker (1328 comments posted) 25th February 2007 | Depends what is on the sandwich
You lost me here bwoz. Intriguing though.
Oli  |
Written by Phil (6845 comments posted) 25th February 2007 | I think I 'get' this, but it took a lot of thought. Nothing wrong in that so long as most of your readers take something from this. ('Course, I may have hold of the wrong end of the stick.) If they don't, perhaps it's a bit too opaque.
Phil. |
Written by Fledermaus (3448 comments posted) 25th February 2007 | | The last two lines are a bit of a puzzle indeed. Still it paints two nice pictures. It isn't clear to me why you chose these metaphors though. |
Written by Witzl (1585 comments posted) 25th February 2007 | My first interpretation of this was that the writer was afraid of losing all of his memories. I'm projecting here: my family is riddled with Alzheimer's, and any memory lapse I have scares me to death. Then I reread the poem and wondered if it was more that he wanted to retain the good memories and lose the bad ones -- though in time all of our memories, good and bad, can get a little vague. Now I am wondering if it isn't more to do with the writer wanting to hang on to the knowledge he has gained but losing all the unpleasantness of the past. And wouldn't that be great.
Is any of those interpretations in the ballpark? | In the ball park
Written by bwoz (125 comments posted) 25th February 2007 | Yes Witzl, you are just about on target with your critique. In all fairness, it is a very abstract, or opaque poem, intentionally that way.
What I wanted to leave with the reader is the ideas that:
We tend to think of forgetting as a negative occurrence -- don't want to be forgetful. In the same light, we tend to treat remembering, or a good memory as a possitive trait.
Of course if we could only forget the bad things and remember the good things wouldn't that be nice.
the last two lines are somewhat a puzzled, but the best way I could think of, using the thoughts from above stanzas, to say I wish I could just forget the lonely, lost things worth forgetting but still have the cozy sandwich and peacefulness of a good memory.
Something like that. Well, I guess if I must explain the poem then I've missed the mark by a long shot.
Thanks all for reading and commenting.
BW
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Written by ellipinnock (1753 comments posted) 26th February 2007 | For once I wasn't the slow one at the back of the group left wondering what was going on!
I actually got what you were on about and like the use of the sandwich at the end.
I must be having a good day 
Like this a lot
Elli |
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