strider19 Oct 2002

Do you know what pretentious means? I am not pretending and you may personally welcome anything you like, that's your right as it is mine to stay here and bring you some much needed guidance. This poem is beyond your intellect. The register of the poem is antagonistic, it is meant to be, it is aimed at an audience of intelligence and perception. It is meant to be paradoxical in that the anti-heroine longs for oblivion rather than the stasis and security of being protected against the harshness of life, and yet ultimately realises that in her naivety she has brought this all on herself. Commas, I spit in the face of convention, when was the last time you did ?