[Ttha-potm] : "Friends Beyond" TTHA Poem of the Month for
January 2009
Rosemarie Morgan
Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu
Sat Jan 3 13:41:01 PST 2009
I think that if "wight" were self-referential as opposed to referring to
"They," that the related performative, "abide" would be "abides." ("Me--
fellow-wight who yet abide[s]")
Maybe a crux (?) but I would rather say *crucial* given that these souls
are still in some way present: -- they "yet abide."
Cheers
Rosemarie
>This line seems to be somewhat of a crux. I still tend to gloss it, "they
>(the dead) have a way of whispering to me to me, a fellow-wight (
>Betty
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