Swander
rain and the old swan looks fearful
as if at a loss how to sing
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 April 1666.
Dave Bonta
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rain and the old swan looks fearful
as if at a loss how to sing
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 April 1666.
A short moment: rain begins to fall, and an old swan looks afraid. The poem doesn't say what the swan is afraid of. Instead it offers a comparison, that the bird seems "at a loss / how to sing." Swans are traditionally tied to the idea of a final, beautiful song before death, so an old swan that…
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