"Thoughts talk to me within / My mind, that shuttered room."
— Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
Work Title
Date
1947
Metaphor
"Thoughts talk to me within / My mind, that shuttered room."
Metaphor in Context
Like the notes of an old violin,
Thoughts talk to me within
My mind, that shuttered room [...]
Old friends whose charity shone
For me, be memory-mine.
Thoughts talk to me within
My mind, that shuttered room [...]
Old friends whose charity shone
For me, be memory-mine.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Stephen Toulmin's "The Inwardness of Mental Life," Critical Inquiry. 6:1 (Autumn, 1979). p. 9.
Citation
Text available at the Electronic Poetry Portal <Link>
Date of Entry
09/06/2005
Date of Review
10/30/2006
