[Ttha-potm] Final movement

[Rosemarie Morgan]

I like this David -

I think we are in tune at last . I also feel the warm and tender mood, the 
affection in the voice  . . . although not the Eros.**  Goodness only knows 
why Genesis keeps resonating for me (a devout agnostic)- maybe it's because 
the *first* dawn, the *first* "sign" of  Creativity/Creation was generated 
by a voice  (a poetic voice?) which said "Let there be Light".  And then 
later -- when the Creative Act was complete (and mankind could write, 
create a text, compose a whole new world--notably *Genesis*)  blessings are 
bestowed upon "everything that creeps on the earth."

  This motif seems to be deeply interwoven into Hardy's poem -- too  The 
creation of a new dawn (hope/enlightenment/ dawning of consciousness) -- it 
may be the very poem itself ?

In feel we have been rather misled this month by too many literal readings, 
too much focus on the macabre..

I'm glad you too find softness and pleasure in this poem
Best
Rosemarie
** Remember that the star rising in the East was also the star that guided 
the wise men to the birthplace of JC -- so it has spiritual as well as 
Venus-erotic connotations.

   To me the tone is affectionate, as is the mood--appropriately so, since 
there is a theme throughout of memorialization.
>   The day's revival gives back to the anonymous dead their names, their 
> living names.
>  I don't find anything "creepy" about this.,,,  ealthily emerging from 
> their nocturnal habitats.
>.  Even the meter spells life, forcing us to speed through ... Hopkins's 
>sprung rhythm), stressing as we go the three syllables: "names," "out," 
>"-where."
>
>David
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