An audio-video interpretation by Chris Mooney-Singh
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This video gave me a feeling of claustrophobia, and it had me rushing back to the poem to read it anew. I now read it ironically, as if the speaker is a doll in a dolls house, trying to persuade the reader that she's free when she's really in a prison of her own making. Numerous windows and superior doors don't point to possibility, or do they? The only open part of the house is the roof, hinting at the heavens, more of an afterlife than the here and now. Gathering Paradise usually hints at death. I see the poem through a different lens now, whether or not you intended that. Did you?
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10/4/2014 04:17:48 pm
Hi Eleanor,
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