I’ve loved this since I was a child, but understand it much better as an adult…
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Abstraction · 61-69, M
Beautiful. I studied Mending Walls either at school or college, can't recall. He has this essence of depth hidden in the most forthright simplicity.
I've not seen this. I'm interested in your take. For me it reminds me of how complete and still I feel in nature, yet I'm hardly ever in it. Like the owner I live in a village and I have promises and miles to go that pull me away from those moments. Life has pulled us away from nature. I love that even the horse, pulled countless generations before from the wild itself, its ancestors once wild things, but now domesticated like us, doesn't comprehend. But I haven't lived with this for long, I only first read it now.
I've not seen this. I'm interested in your take. For me it reminds me of how complete and still I feel in nature, yet I'm hardly ever in it. Like the owner I live in a village and I have promises and miles to go that pull me away from those moments. Life has pulled us away from nature. I love that even the horse, pulled countless generations before from the wild itself, its ancestors once wild things, but now domesticated like us, doesn't comprehend. But I haven't lived with this for long, I only first read it now.