tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107758010639847749.post5480043120363989240..comments2022-02-17T21:15:06.985-08:00Comments on The Scant Gold I Bring : Future PastoralJeff in Seattlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08096023145399598798noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107758010639847749.post-55729667823955272012021-01-10T22:27:49.311-08:002021-01-10T22:27:49.311-08:00I struggle to imagine something like this being wr...I struggle to imagine something like this being written to a living person, to be honest.<br /><br />The way I understand the title is that it refers to afterlife rather than an actual physical location.<br /><br />The fourth stanza at least seems to indicate that, even more so if you combine it with the fifth.<br /><br />Strange, that my wandering feet,<br />In all the years, had never known this place,<br />Where beauty, with a glamor wild and sweet,<br />Awaits the final witchcraft of your face.<br /><br />Upon this secret hill<br />I gave my dark bereavement to the sun,<br />My sorrow to the flowing air . . . until<br />Your tresses and the grass were somehow one,<br />The Sojourner of Worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04861667647424878420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107758010639847749.post-45870073253820278082020-11-28T07:56:40.193-08:002020-11-28T07:56:40.193-08:00It would be interesting to know if CAS did in fact...It would be interesting to know if CAS did in fact write this poem with a specific recipient in mind. I suspect the answer must be "yes", simply because the words are so genuinely heartfelt. But who that recipient may have been, I have no idea!Jeff in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08096023145399598798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107758010639847749.post-38650039064578380532020-11-27T17:38:51.483-08:002020-11-27T17:38:51.483-08:00Funny you should say it reads like a letter since ...Funny you should say it reads like a letter since those are the exact words I've used whenever I would mention it to someone.<br /><br />It's also funny when you think about how much effort has been spent throughout the centuries on writing love poems, and then this guy shows up, writes a letter in verse, and makes it sound more honest, genuine, authentic, and thus beautiful, than any of them.<br /><br />To be more specific, I always understood it as a letter by an old man to his dearly departed wife. I'm actually almost surprised to hear it wasn't written much later than 1942.The Sojourner of Worldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04861667647424878420noreply@blogger.com