04-25-2011, 12:56 PM
The epigram was also used by T. S. Eliot at the start of his The Waste Land, except it was in its original Latin. Sybil was a mythological character who'd seen the entirety of human existance from her jar, hence the title "Witnesses."
By "my fill" I meant my fill of life.
I'll delete the "the"s from before "flowers" and "days," partly because "the flowers bloom again" doesn't really make sense. Looking back it implies that the very same flowers which died last year are coming back to life.
As the jar in the final couplet is a reference to the epigram I think the "of sorts" is needed.
Thanks for the feedback Billy.
By "my fill" I meant my fill of life.
I'll delete the "the"s from before "flowers" and "days," partly because "the flowers bloom again" doesn't really make sense. Looking back it implies that the very same flowers which died last year are coming back to life.
As the jar in the final couplet is a reference to the epigram I think the "of sorts" is needed.
Thanks for the feedback Billy.
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