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This nothing's more than matter. ~ Laertes
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance... there is pansies, that's for thoughts... there's rue for you, and some for me ~ Ophelia
Hamlet Act IV, Scene V
Rosemary scents my thoughts on this tonight,
On how I claim a break in etiquette.
You have not said that I am wrong, nor yet
have you acknowledged what I see as right.
It's not my way to push or to insist;
Instead, I dwell ~ on my own omission
that I cannot relieve this condition;
and, too, on how my presence is not missed;
On this degree of bitterness that mars
the sweetness of a rare friendship's flavor;
That sorry was too dear a price to pay
for the small but pretty thing that was ours.
Better if you had withheld your favor;
I might be the madwoman that you say.
x.
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance... there is pansies, that's for thoughts... there's rue for you, and some for me ~ Ophelia
Hamlet Act IV, Scene V
Rosemary scents my thoughts on this tonight,
On how I claim a break in etiquette.
You have not said that I am wrong, nor yet
have you acknowledged what I see as right.
It's not my way to push or to insist;
Instead, I dwell ~ on my own omission
that I cannot relieve this condition;
and, too, on how my presence is not missed;
On this degree of bitterness that mars
the sweetness of a rare friendship's flavor;
That sorry was too dear a price to pay
for the small but pretty thing that was ours.
Better if you had withheld your favor;
I might be the madwoman that you say.
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Date: 2005-07-25 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-25 07:13 am (UTC)One of the choices that I was concerned with, with this, was the use of the word "condition". It has job-related connotations that work in my head and in the verse, and I'm not sure how it sounds w/o those connotations. [As in, "prior to funding conditions": items that have to be collected and presented before business can proceed.]
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Date: 2005-07-25 09:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-25 03:53 pm (UTC)Actually, I think it's the way this poem strikes me as tragic and depressing that I like. After reading it I only have one question; was it meant to be depressing?
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Date: 2005-07-25 10:05 pm (UTC)