Describe the poets style and voice in the poem listed below. What is the poet saying?

Okay you poetry lovers... let's get some interaction on this wonderful poem.:)





X


(by Mary Malone)





Do not reach out to me from where you are,


So young in form, so living, free of time.


For me the winter seas ride bleak and far


Nor may I turn again to summer's prime.


I lean across the wall, aware of you.


In sleep I wander in your world awhile,


And I remember well the hours we knew,


Brief flowers blowing bby a pasture stile.





They are no more. They cannot scent the air


For you, for me, nor will they bloom again.


If I could pass the barrier and be there


We should be meeting without love or pain.


Now, locked in time and weary to the bone


I hold the shadow, with the substance flown.

Describe the poets style and voice in the poem listed below. What is the poet saying?
Free verse
Reply:The author sounds like they have given up but not forgotten. The voice sounds saddened and a little lost and alone. They may be too stubborn to realize that they don't have to suffer and only will continue to suffer unless they do something and fight for what they want to be happy.
Reply:idk i need the 2 points
Reply:This is the first poem I have ever read on Y Answers that made me cry. The commentary below speaks somewhat to her poetic style and you'll find X (on the website I've listed as my source) as one of several examples used.





From the website:





Mary belonged to the NH Poetry Society, and, as I recall, was once or maybe twice voted by its members as their Poet of The Year. This distinction was accorded not on the basis of her humorous work, which to my knowledge she had shared with virtually no one besides me, but in acknowledgment of the high quality of her lyric poetry and of her sonnets, most of which are recorded in the only book she published, in 1990, A Shifting of The Light.





Mary’s serious poetry is noteworthy for its naturalness of style, as well as for a distinctly wistful quality about it. She was not much impressed with current poetry trends, and indeed probably felt somewhat disinherited, as is natural enough for any poet with a genuinely lyric bent today. She died in the 1990s, and I am glad to be able to assist in making her voice heard once again. It was a lovely one.
Reply:Sounds depressed to me. The poet is saying that she is old and wishes she wasn't. She can't turn back the hands of time, but she can remember a time when she was young and the person she is referring to was alive. Now she can only dream about it. She is telling somebody who died young that she remembers them.



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