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25 Jan: "Poem" by Ernest Hemingway

The only man I ever loved
Said good bye
And went away
He was killed in Picardy
On a sunny day. 

2 comments:

  1. Typical Hemingway: short, sad, and full of story between the lines.

    It connects well with yesterday's poem. A narrator that cannot master the art of losing. This loss will prevent the narrator from ever loving again.

    Hemingway, the war veteran, tells how the injustices of young men drafted and killed in war do not cease with their deaths.

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  2. Your last comment really interested me. This same human condition keeps returning through all types of poems. What exactly are we really trying to explain/record? It really seems to be the subject of everything...there is a problem (the human condition), and we...are trying to figure it out. The deaths carry on....because in death, the problem no longer exists- it is either solved and dissolves or it really does live on- in us.

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