
WH Auden
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Other Half Is Ludicrous
Every prospect, every possible destination was him. Now it has become truly cosmic. The stars are not wanted. And now the final standza, well, there's no point in anything any more. There aren't the my in those four lines appears nine times, and the word i twice. It's now phenomenally subjective. Its subjectivity as as an illness. When people talk about the other half, they casually refer to their partner as the other half. This is the other half expressed in detail,. what that means to feel that someone else completes you.
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