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From next (1988), "my dream about time" Summary
This is classic dream imagery, a person who is not even yourself running down the hallways of a long house, a place without any life in it. The strange house has "too many" windows and each one looks out on such a strange world that the poet cannot even speak about it, having no "language" for it. She doesn't approach any door except the last one, which she reaches and opens. Inside is a room with every wall covered with clocks and just as she looks into the room, they all strike. Instead of striking the hour, they strike a word, "NO."
From next (1988), "my dream about time" Analysis
This is a pure dream, nonlinear, non-narrative. In it, the poet traverses the endless hallway of an impossibly long house...
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