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[peccare.livejournal.com]

hey i dont know if this is allowed so feel free to delete it, mods. but i found an interesting blog post over at the guardian, and was wondering what you guys thought.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/whats_a_perfect_line_in_poetry.html

whats your idea of a perfect line in poetry? i quite like the 'life like a dome...', but i think the line from lady lazarus that talks about the maggots like sticky pearls is also pretty perfect.

it's so difficult to pick a line that keeps its perfection outside the context of a poem, because often it's perfect due to the leadup, or what comes after it, even.

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because it's a pain in the ass to post on Guardian

[silent-claws.livejournal.com]

From "Love Calls us to the Things of this World (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/poem98.html)"

The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul
Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple
As false dawn.
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.

If I had to pare it down further, the astounded soul/Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple/As false dawn. would do it.

:) That's one good poem. I think the lines fit Lonely_Lycanth's delicacy, eloquence, and falling feeling rubric. :)

Re: because it's a pain in the ass to post on Guardian

[peccare.livejournal.com]

wow. i really like

"outside the open window
the morning air is all awash with angels"