tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3362209859031667800..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `I Have Not Finished'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-5440710156249417042016-08-27T11:04:43.058-05:002016-08-27T11:04:43.058-05:00I read Geoffrey Hill's "Requiem for Plant...I read Geoffrey Hill's "Requiem for Plantagenet Kings@ the other day and was fairly comprehensively baffled by it - <br /><br />"For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores/Ruinous arms; being fired and for good" <br /><br />"Relieved of soul, the dropping-back of dust"<br /><br />Umm, what?<br /><br />I'd be interested to read your thoughts on the poem (especially the baffling "dropping-back of dust"; plus, which "possessed sea" - and is that "littered" as in carried on a litter or scattered about, and how the hell did the sea do either of those things - or could it be I'm being stupidly literal [who me?])<br /><br />Anyway grateful if you feel like it, to read your thoughts, as I said.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com