
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
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The Trees Join a Neighbor?
The origin of the word amazement has to do with our word maze, confusing, complicated? Is it possible that amazing refers to the complication and maybe you can start us on to what the trees are doing? How could trees join a neighbor? What's the physical description we're trying to get here? Yeah. I think the first sentence, no matter how simple it is, as Dag said, is also as complex,. especially I'm stuck by, it starts with these are amazing each. Are they amazing together or are they amazing individually?
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