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This is the poetry that comes into my life. Please feel free to comment on anything here. I don't think there is too much beauty in the world nor poetry. I will include some comments myself sometimes and some information on the poets, but the real stars is the work itself.



I am a believer in the reader-response theory of reading which means the reader is the one who puts the meaning in the poem so every interpretation is correct. Even if the poet means one thing, it could mean something else to the reader. I am pretty laid back in interpretation as each of us have other experiences and needs when reading.



I like using Zebrareader because it gives me tremendous freedom in what I want to write.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Love After Love by Derek Walcott


Love After Love
By Derek Walcott

The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other's welcome,

And say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you

All your life, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

The photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your image from the mirror,
Sit. Feast on your life.






I have been a fan of Derek Walcott for a very long time since reading some of his poems many years ago in a magazine. Still, I was surprised to hear of his winning the Nobel Prize in 1992. Still, reading this poem lately, it came in a period of time that I was putting myself together anew and attempting to reclaim my body and part of my life I had let separate from myself. Again this poet astonishes me for the poem seemed to be what I was looking for, the feelings I was feeling but did not have the words he did. Ah yes, this is what I needed....
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