By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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De hecho, a pesar de todos los reveses recibidos, el amor que sentía la hizo sentir invencible, poderosa, fecunda. If poetry moves you, if you are patient with the line-by-line completion in poetry because you read it with the understanding that you will grasp its meaning only per its line and not its full body, then you will appreciate this piece. Porque eso es En Grand Central Station me senté y lloré, situado a medio camino entre la poesía y la novela; imágenes de una intensidad y una belleza fuera de lo común. I see now that I was thirsty for writing that had feelings and heart instead of control and cleverness. The speaker is self-aware enough to understand that she is moving against conventionality, but in her view, towards something more valuable.

And I, who have the world in my pocket, can bring them nothing to comfort their disappointment or reward their optimism, but supplicate the fatted calf which they killed so often before and so in vain. The first piece is about the feelings of being in love with someone attainable but not fully attainable. But it was also difficult not to feel frustrated by Smart, a woman so intoxicated by the poetic idea of love that it brought an apparent perversity to her actions – at times deserting her children to be with Barker, nigh-on prostrating herself before him. Still, I would be embarrassed and worried if some hypothetical child of mine acted like such a groupie (we can say groupie only because it turned out he fancied her. I've had a few of these odd coincidences recently, some which are evidently due to something I'd read before and not consciously remembered: e.

From the corner where the hill turns from the sea and goes into the secrecy and damp air of forbidden things, I stand disinterestedly examining the instruments and the pattern of my fate. Postscript: looking back on this read a good 6 months out, I think I would recommend it, but I would be very specific in who I would recommend it to: bright, curious teenagers and new college students? He speaks of a childhood yearning for his father's presence that would later turn to rage and resentment. Está escrito de forma sublime y de gran intensidad, y esto puede arrastrar al lector como no lo ha hecho nadie, pero también apabullar de forma que no se conecte o incluso sea demasiado.

Where Spark is all concision, Smart is all excess, where Spark is firm and trim, Smart is soft and yielding. Incluso la precisa geometría de su mano, cuando la contemplo, me disuelve en agua, y la corriente del amor me arrastra… El amor me posee, y no tengo alternativa. It's hard for me to find anything to compare it to, but it struck the perfect note with me and I loved it.

C. to support herself, her daughter, and her writing by working as a file clerk for the British embassy. This contained moments of sweeping, all-encompassing truth and beauty interspersed with shallow angst and stunted, introspective thinking.

Y pese a tanto sufrimiento, Smart expone claramente su preferencia por esta destructora cara del amor si la alternativa es la mera indiferencia.But my eyes, like the bloody setting sun, peer through the veils and mists which rise from sorrow, towards that meeting which I must have or die.