Lyssa

Both sonnets are amazing. No 119 makes me smile everytime I read it. It is so sweet and beautiful and speaks of being so enamoured. Wonderful. No 120 is brilliant and breathtaking and it`s awesome that you crafted a monument in words for them. Thank you for sharing these. 🙂

The repetition of the plead "be near me" makes my heart ache. For the one, who live this in the moment, but is not allowed to have anyone near him. Carring the names of millions, the dream of billions, the flags of all nations and all the colors. (Versengold)

Well, this essay confirms at least that Karl Heinrich Ulrichs studied Tennyson. Maybe it was also the other way around. 🙂

I think Melpomene found a way through Tennyson to do her work. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

Those motives of nature Tennyson uses, draw me in. There is such a lonliness in this process of passing away and neverless the thought of everlasting rivers, woods and gras are still comforting at least for me.

I think, the goverments didn`t set a mask obligation as long as masks weren`t available for a periode of time. Now here (Berlin), they made it an obligation while shopping and in public transport. I work as a teacher and will go back from digital teaching to teaching in school next week with limited numbers of students and we have to provide our own masks, students and teacher. (I am still not sure, how teaching without kids seeing my speaking because of the mask and without being allowed to step to their tables and look on their work closely will work out. But we will see. I thought about installing a document slide into the classroom, to make it at least more fun for the kids and maybe distract them a little from me not being able to come closer and look on their work. )

I really love the No 34. It is very intense and somehow incredible intimate.