Nostos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHIJKLGMNOPQR NNSH| There was an apple tree in the yard | A |
| this would have been | B |
| forty years ago behind | C |
| only meadows Drifts | D |
| of crocus in the damp grass | E |
| I stood at that window | F |
| late April Spring | G |
| flowers in the neighbor's yard | A |
| How many times really did the tree | H |
| flower on my birthday | I |
| the exact day not | J |
| before not after Substitution | K |
| of the immutable | L |
| for the shifting the evolving | G |
| Substitution of the image | M |
| for relentless earth What | N |
| do I know of this place | O |
| the role of the tree for decades | P |
| taken by a bonsai voices | Q |
| rising from the tennis courts | R |
| Fields Smell of the tall grass new cut | N |
| As one expects of a lyric poet | N |
| We look at the world once in childhood | S |
| The rest is memory | H |
Louise Gluck
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Gary Hollywood B.Sc.: I interpret Nostos as an acknowledgement that as we progress into adulthood we are layered with states and traits that have taken us far away from what we know to be our true selves. Thus we could only truly pay proper attention to the World around us as a child. Soon we look at the World through the eyes of an altered state affirmed by the fact that our strongest memories live in us from our childhood days. Days we long to return to, indeed we spend a lifetime trying to return home to our true selves through various methods. It's like we have a gaping hole in our soul that we are trying to fill.....
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