06-21-2017, 03:20 AM
hello Tektak!
I wouldn´t see that much issues.. for me the jinni seems to continue talking, like some salesman (speaking about himself in 3rd person) throughout most of the poem. i think it´s necessary basically to show how humans want to distract themselves from painful facts.
only the last two stanzas seem to give the view of some background narrator.
what I also like is that the question that is posed in the first stanza (wether knowing how one will die would be a relief of a sort) is ignored and the last stanza reveals the real question, which already has an answer. the last but one stanza in my view gives the only reasonable reaction: close your eyes to it and accept.
(could be I interpreted too much, but as the thread is that far along maybe it´s acceptable)
I wouldn´t see that much issues.. for me the jinni seems to continue talking, like some salesman (speaking about himself in 3rd person) throughout most of the poem. i think it´s necessary basically to show how humans want to distract themselves from painful facts.
only the last two stanzas seem to give the view of some background narrator.
what I also like is that the question that is posed in the first stanza (wether knowing how one will die would be a relief of a sort) is ignored and the last stanza reveals the real question, which already has an answer. the last but one stanza in my view gives the only reasonable reaction: close your eyes to it and accept.
(could be I interpreted too much, but as the thread is that far along maybe it´s acceptable)