"What's my head but a rat's nest / of dubious texts?"
— Harwood, Gwen (1920-1995)
Author
Work Title
Date
1981
Metaphor
"What's my head but a rat's nest / of dubious texts?"
Metaphor in Context
Silence fixes our loves.
Let me cultivate silence.
What's my head but a rat's nest
of dubious texts? Let water
ask me, what have you learned?
I tell the plush deeps, nothing.
Nightfall, an old vexed hour.
(ll. 8-14)
Let me cultivate silence.
What's my head but a rat's nest
of dubious texts? Let water
ask me, what have you learned?
I tell the plush deeps, nothing.
Nightfall, an old vexed hour.
(ll. 8-14)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Harwood, Gwen. "Andante." The Literature of Australia. Ed. Nicholas Jose. New York and London: Norton, 2009. pp. 677-8.
Date of Entry
02/03/2010
