TheANIMAL
October 19, 2008, 4:23pm
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A poem using heteronyms… try reading this aloud.
Her life was never content
She had alternated
She stood there
She had become an object of criticism
Like a prisoner of fate
Had her life become a refuse?
She saw the hoarding…
She signed
Life was so close
As the number in her clock increased
Then peace
Kavitha Krishnamurthy
The word “chilled” and the comma was added by me.
I tried doing one of these, but its pretty tricky.
egan
October 19, 2008, 6:47pm
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That’s pretty cool. I only made one mistake reading it aloud… I said resigned instead of re-signed “…her death note”. Kinda tricky.
TheANIMAL
October 20, 2008, 5:18am
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Yeah, lol, i think that is the hardest verse to get right.
The theme of the poem reminds me of the song ‘Tourniquet’ by Evanescence.
ropsta
October 20, 2008, 5:52am
5
A poem using heteronyms… try reading this aloud.
Her life was never content
…
Life was so closea minute pain
As the number in her clock increased
The beginning content and last minute were the parts that got me. Anding “a” in front of minute was either a cheap trick or a bad translation. Stylistically, it should be “the most minute pain”. Otherwise, reading it as minute, like time, is not totally incorrect.
I have to admit. I didn’t follow a word of it.
TheANIMAL
October 20, 2008, 7:48am
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Lol, yeah, it doesn’t make sense if you try and analyse it too much, it was just a clever use of the most annoying type of homonym.
