Original poem reprinted online here: "The Comet" by Emma Törzs Originally read: April 1, 2013 More information about the Poet: Emma Törzs The beginning of the poem has the classic case of being too personal and cute. The adjective/noun combinations of "deep lonely," "beautiful freeze," and "staring eyes" have the tendency of leading the reader to the single direction of sentiment. Well, where else would this lead to? But this in itself is the trap of the poem -- how much of the sentiment intertwines with the allusion or vice versa. Of course the image of the comet does set up more of a symbolic reading for me -- the stars, the moon, the great beyond -- this is where my mind unfortunately goes and the eventual turn here is to the personal -- to either life or death. And the poem doesn't disappoint on this level. First, how the poem deals with life, "Say I am the aftertaste / of all my parents' grief, a childhood spent in the downw...
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