Re: The Dwarf Beneath The Mountain // Rob

On Sep 29, 7:42 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

OK; but where you say "mirror", I'd say "speaker." I say, though, that
that comes to the same thing: the speaker intends his poem to be a
mirror on the dwarf, showing all the nastiness that Shorty (the dwarf)
is so desperate to conceal.

"...showing all the nastiness that (it judges as the characteristics
of) ..."

But you've spotted the flaw in that yourself: the dwarf is inside the
mountain, where the speaker (Big Guy) cannot see him. And what cannot
be seen, cannot be reflected either. So Big Guy can't hold up a mirror
and show us Shorty; all he can do is tell us about the Shorty. Which
is all that does occur in the poem: no showing, just teling and
telling and telling ...

maybe this is nitpicky. the dwarf is beneath the mountain. were the
mountain personified, perhaps the mountain sees the dwarf as beneath
it.

you made me think of (maybe) a cute pun: Don't judge a nook by its
cover.

(whoops! movie starting bb soon!)

[...]

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