Gossamer
Gossamer is a word on the front page of "My Favorite Word."
I do like the word "gossamer." Emily Dickinson used it in "Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me."
The definition: a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather.
How beautiful. So this gossamer is her only gown, paused before a cornice that look like a mound.
People have said that her poetry requires a constant attention, because it will challenge your cognition and pass you by. The first stanza of this poem highlights the uses of the word "stop" in two senses, making you wonder which is literal, metaphysical, symbological, or metaphorical, or some, or all at once?
I do like the word "gossamer." Emily Dickinson used it in "Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me."
The definition: a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather.
How beautiful. So this gossamer is her only gown, paused before a cornice that look like a mound.
People have said that her poetry requires a constant attention, because it will challenge your cognition and pass you by. The first stanza of this poem highlights the uses of the word "stop" in two senses, making you wonder which is literal, metaphysical, symbological, or metaphorical, or some, or all at once?
posted by Alan at September 15, 2005
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