Excerpt from "Night Light" by Anne Winters

[[D]]

Only your plastic night light dusts its pink
on the backs and undersides of things; your mother,
head resting on the nightside of one arm,
floats a hand above your cradle
to feel the humid tendril of your breathing.
Outside, the night rocks, murmurs... Crouched
in this eggshell light, i fell my heart
slowing, opened to your tiny flame

....

I'm not that good at poetry is someone can help give me a generalization about this poem and it's meaning that would be greatly appreciated!

[Virgil]

[D]

The poem is about a mother's love for her child. She is standing over him while he sleeps.

[browneyedbailey]

;582402']Only your plastic night light dusts its pink
on the backs and undersides of things; your mother,
head resting on the nightside of one arm,
floats a hand above your cradle
to feel the humid tendril of your breathing.
Outside, the night rocks, murmurs... Crouched
in this eggshell light, i fell my heart
slowing, opened to your tiny flame

....

I'm not that good at poetry is someone can help give me a generalization about this poem and it's meaning that would be greatly appreciated!

This is a beautiful poem about how one person is evolving arround another, a person's love for another, and a longing for that love (I think anyway...)

[[D]]

Lol No its by Anne Winters, i can't write poetry really at all just wanted some help analyzing it.

[browneyedbailey]

I see. An assignment?

[Virgil]

as if your blue irises mirrored me
She's looking into the irises of his eyes and sees herself.


there is space between me, i know,
and you. i hang above you like a planet
you're a planet, too. one planet loves the other
They are two separate beings so there is space between them. But the child is under her protecton like a planet that is in an orbit within another planet's orbit. They can't break free of each other.

[browneyedbailey]

You're absolutly right Virgil.

[mazHur]

You're absolutly right Virgil.

I agree with Virgil ,,,,it is a poem about a mother's love for her child.
Nice metaphors used ...


;582402']Only your plastic night light dusts its pink
on the backs and undersides of things; your mother,
head resting on the nightside of one arm,
floats a hand above your cradle
to feel the humid tendril of your breathing.
Outside, the night rocks, murmurs... Crouched
in this eggshell light, i fell my heart
slowing, opened to your tiny flame

....

I'm not that good at poetry is someone can help give me a generalization about this poem and it's meaning that would be greatly appreciated!

well m the colored lines are metaphorical poetical representations

[browneyedbailey]

;582402']Only your plastic night light dusts its pink
on the backs and undersides of things; your mother,
head resting on the nightside of one arm,
floats a hand above your cradle
to feel the humid tendril of your breathing.
Outside, the night rocks, murmurs... Crouched
in this eggshell light, i feel my heart
slowing, opened to your tiny flame

Well this means the baby's night light in a room that is dark otherwiseA mother in a position incase the baby stops breathingMaking sure the baby is breathingHmmm... this one's tough... ummm how the night sort of speaks to us I guess, The whole eggshell of light thing is like isolation from the outside world (which is sleeping) and the streangth of the tiny creature, perhaps? That's all I've got, is it okay? I only get stokes of genius when I'm gloomy and last night was one of them. Otherwise I'm a complete brain-missing bublehead.:D :blush:

[JBI]

Hmm, not quite sure this is legal, Ms. Winters Still being alive, and being not too old.

[Logos]

Thread and posts edited: please read below linked thread info re: copyright !

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17515

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[[D]]

Are you both ignorant i clearly stated that i didn't write the poem when somebody thought i did in a previous post and in the thread title i said specifically, BY ANNE WINTERS not [D] but alright carry on.

[JBI]

No, Logos is not stupid, and my intelligence perhaps may be up to debate (though I hardly think myself stupid). The poem you posted is subject to copyright, which you violated, committing a crime. It is not legal to post someone else's poems without their authorized permission, or their estate's.

[stlukesguild]

No, Logos is not stupid, and my intelligence perhaps may be up to debate (though I hardly think myself stupid). The poem you posted is subject to copyright, which you violated, committing a crime. It is not legal to post someone else's poems without their authorized permission, or their estate's.

JBI... that's not entirely true. There are exceptions to copy-rite law, one being, under the "fair use" clause, for the purpose of criticism. Even in this instance, however, one cannot (for example) copy an entire longer work (such as a long or epic poem). One could not reprint the entire Wasteland as part of a critical discussion of the work (excepting that it pre-dates 1923... )
In the case of shorter poems it is obvious that one cannot post an entire collection... but a single short poem? The legalities are somewhat unclear. Having worked for some time in the genre of collage... which historically utilizes already existing imagery... I had to do a great deal of reading as to the legality. The problem is that there is no simple specificity as to how much use of another's work (written or visual) constitutes "fair use". Various legal advisers, lawyers, court rulings, etc... contradict each other. It is no wonder that Logos would play it safe.

The only area of "free use" that has seemed fairly straight-forward was that concerning use of photographic images of artwork predating 1923. Some photographers and photographic publishers have argued that while Michelangelo's Sistine may be in the public domain, the specific photograph of the same is not. The courts did not agree, stating that as the intention of the photograph is to reproduce an image as close as possible, that photograph of an art work in the public domain is not subject to copy-rite protection unless the photographer greatly changes the image or the context. As such, if I took a photograph of my wife standing before the Mona Lisa, that could be copywritten.... just a photograph of the same painting... Not.

[JBI]

Still, better on the safe side than on the illegal side. Whose to say who will be a coming with pitchforks and torches. Copying out a full poem is, as far as I know, illegal in many circumstances, where usually a surcharge of some sort for the right to print it out in public view is required (I know for well-selling poets the fee can be as high as 500$ or more).

[Logos]

No, Logos is not stupid ....
ah well, I would not argue that *that* could be subject to debate :p

.... It is no wonder that Logos would play it safe. Well, I do my best in looking out for the best interests of the website and that includes content that is inappropriate in various ways. It just boggles my mind that some people can't grasp the very simple precepts surrounding copyright protection. Maybe Ms. Winters would *love* to see her entire poem posted here but we have to work on the assumption that she does not, and that respect of copyright protected works is alive and well, at least on some websites :)

[D], well? what to say ... some people have tried to assist you, good luck with your work.

[mazHur]

ah well, I would not argue that *that* could be subject to debate :p
Well, I do my best in looking out for the best interests of the website and that includes content that is inappropriate in various ways. It just boggles my mind that some people can't grasp the very simple precepts surrounding copyright protection. Maybe Ms. Winters would *love* to see her entire poem posted here but we have to work on the assumption that she does not, and that respect of copyright protected works is alive and well, at least on some websites :)

[D], well? what to say ... some people have tried to assist you, good luck with your work.


Logos is correct. Copyright laws like other laws have to be respected. A copyrighted work ought not be pubished in its entirely ,,,,however, I think it's not illegal to quote it in packets for criticism or citation ,,,,in law, citation of such kind are called ''shepherdization'' and the only intent behind them is to substantiate or prove your own point of view in some direction

[blazeofglory]

;582402']Only your plastic night light dusts its pink
on the backs and undersides of things; your mother,
head resting on the nightside of one arm,
floats a hand above your cradle
to feel the humid tendril of your breathing.
Outside, the night rocks, murmurs... Crouched
in this eggshell light, i fell my heart
slowing, opened to your tiny flame

....

I'm not that good at poetry is someone can help give me a generalization about this poem and it's meaning that would be greatly appreciated!

Dear D, poetry is a domain that is different from the rest of other domains in that it speaks of your heart, and that is why I am against polishing it by others than the poet himself / herself.

Your poem has the charm, beauty and nothing to edit. If we edit it is not for adding value to it but distort something. I am sure you have something to interest and excite us.

Please D come up with more and more poems like this. I am impatient to read yours.