Original poem reprinted online here: "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands Originally read: August 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: Aimée Sands Automatically, the poem sets up a metaphor of the self as a mortgage through negation. But also the poem sets up any discussion about a house as a parallel metaphor for the self. This is why I find the couplets particularly effective to highlight the similarities and the separation. "And the floors dreaming in wide, / drowned light. The drifting and bobbling," Note the heavy emphasis on verbs here. Here the action is more personified: dream, drift, bobbling -- but also note how the verbs are set in stasis through the personification. What's moving. Nothing, it's action inaction. "nodding you off in another direction, / broken sideways, sideways / broken" The inverse lines reinforces the dream-like surreal syntax, but furthermore in the context to the poem, the repetition o...
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