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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: "The candle a Saint"
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:29:58 +0000
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Jordy C wrote:

> General-Zod wrote:
>> Jordy C wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> > > > >> > “Green is the night, green kindled and apparelled
>>>> > > > > > > It is she that walks among astronomers
>>>> > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > She strides above the rabbit and the cat,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Like a noble figure, out of the sky
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Moving among the sleepers, the men,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Those that lie chanting ‘green is the night’
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Green is the night and out of madness woven,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > The self same madness of the astronomers
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > And of him that sees, beyond the astronomers,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > The topaz rabbit and the emerald cat,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > That sees above them, that sees rise above
>>>> them,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > The noble figure, the essential shadow
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Moving and being, the image at its source,
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > The absurd, the archaic queen. Green is the
>>>> night”
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>>>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Wallace Stevens
>>>
>>> I don’t understand the “point” or “message” of the poem of the poem, if
>>> there is one, but I love and enjoy and appreciate the imagery in the
>>> poem!
>>
>> Hi JC
>>
>> Well put
>
>  Thanks GZ

Good evening, Jordy and Zod.

🙂