Comments on: Thursday Short Poem: Berryman’s “Keep Your Eyes Open” http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:13:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Israel http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20701 Israel Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:32:30 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20701 Divine! You read my mind! I will have to give this poem to my girlfriend. Divine! You read my mind! I will have to give this poem to my girlfriend.

]]> By: Hugo http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20700 Hugo Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:55:01 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20700 Mermade, I like the last two lines of "Mirror": "In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish." But I think she's wrong about the essential truthfulness of mirrors. Mermade, I like the last two lines of “Mirror”:

“In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”

But I think she’s wrong about the essential truthfulness of mirrors.

]]> By: mermade http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20699 mermade Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:21:38 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20699 By the way, "Keep your Eyes Open" is a beautiful poem! By the way, “Keep your Eyes Open” is a beautiful poem!

]]> By: mermade http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20698 mermade Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:19:56 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/04/06/thursday-short-poem-berrymans-keep-your-eyes-open/#comment-20698 Do you like "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath? It's cool if you don't. :-) I just never get tired of reading it. Do you like “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath? It’s cool if you don’t. :-) I just never get tired of reading it.

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