Carrol, Yoshie Help!
joanna bujes
joanna.bujes at sun.com
Fri Jan 31 15:22:00 PST 2003
...and anyone else who can parse poetry...I'm having trouble: Do "jails"
refer to schools or the womb? I'm having trouble with lines 3&4; Is "foe"
in the last line a reference to "mob of solid bliss"?
Thanks/Joanna
FROM all the jails the boys and girls
Ecstatically leap,
Beloved, only afternoon
That prison doesn't keep.
They storm the earth and stun the air,
5
A mob of solid bliss.
Alas! that frowns could lie in wait
For such a foe as this!
Emily Dickenson
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