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- From: sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu ( Wilde Dame)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Re: Sisyphus
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 15:27:30 -0800
- Organization: Seattle University
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- In article <lk7feiINN4e3@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> alpope@acacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Alan L. Pope) writes:
- >
- > Sisyphus
- >
- > For the hudereth time this trip
- > tie me again to the masthead
- > that I might hear the sweet song
- > and know the anguish of longing.
-
- I'm a little confused. Sisyphus was condemned to push a rock up a hill,
- only to have it roll back down again, for all eternity. Odysseus had
- himself tied to the masthead of his ship when they passed through the land
- of the Sirens so that he could hear and escape the sound no man was
- supposed to be able to hear and escape. Assuming you know both these
- things, I have to assume you are attempting to draw a parallel ("for the
- hundredth time this trip"), but I don't see it.
-
- --
- Sheryl Stover % If you ask me what I have come to do in the world,
- & Hemingway & Clio % I who am an artist, I will reply: "I am here to
- sstover@seattleu.edu % live aloud." -Emile Zola
-