This is a sonnet I muddled out one night when my Maths homework got boring!
It's an attempt to recount Frodo's feelings as Sam and he draw nearer to
Mount Doom. The quotation that follows the title is from a piece by the
Spanish poet and mystic St. John of the Cross (1542 - 1591): it translates
as "The dark night of the soul".
Please review!!!
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Dark Night.
"La noche oscura del alma" - San Juan De La Cruz
And nothing. Lead and dead weighted:
Sated down and heavy gaited,
Deep dug in darkness, nailéd in -
And bound to ground that sorrow's ends begin.
Sunken under a soupy gloom, it fills, full feeling,
Is now, is all; and all a groaning ceiling.
The lungs are liquid, crying, crushed with care
And sense unseeking, racked till unaware.
And all now cloaked: cloudy, cruel cocoon;
Wound round and bound and closed in choking tomb.
It is just this, and this to be and be -
Hung, hanging, torn by weight of me.
All life is latent, will weary just to groan,
Grasp, groping, lain in dark, heart all alone.
It's an attempt to recount Frodo's feelings as Sam and he draw nearer to
Mount Doom. The quotation that follows the title is from a piece by the
Spanish poet and mystic St. John of the Cross (1542 - 1591): it translates
as "The dark night of the soul".
Please review!!!
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Dark Night.
"La noche oscura del alma" - San Juan De La Cruz
And nothing. Lead and dead weighted:
Sated down and heavy gaited,
Deep dug in darkness, nailéd in -
And bound to ground that sorrow's ends begin.
Sunken under a soupy gloom, it fills, full feeling,
Is now, is all; and all a groaning ceiling.
The lungs are liquid, crying, crushed with care
And sense unseeking, racked till unaware.
And all now cloaked: cloudy, cruel cocoon;
Wound round and bound and closed in choking tomb.
It is just this, and this to be and be -
Hung, hanging, torn by weight of me.
All life is latent, will weary just to groan,
Grasp, groping, lain in dark, heart all alone.
