Sunday, October 28, 2012

in hours of autumnal sleep- workshop


Is this supposed to be a dream? It shifts so quickly and nothing seems to be connected to anything else, you talk about cigarettes then bars and sparrows and the moon. It seems more like a stream of conciseness piece than one of fiction. If it is a dream with different vignettes changing as the dream goes on then wouldn’t there be a connecting theme, like falling or running. So that no matter what the scene is it deals with the motif because that is what the subconscious mind is going through.
           
 It is also easy to see there is a rhyming scheme to the lines. This gives it a lyrical and poetic feel. It does give the story beauty, but without a structure holding everything together it just looks like a dozen short poems put end to end.  

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