The way she uses sarcasm throughout this poem really brought me into it, since its statements are intriguing and beg one to think and ask questions. The way she says "the nothing of your sensual lips" was interesting since sensual is anything but nothing, in fact it is the opposite of nothing in that it describes the fullness of them.The use of colors, with the blue kisses, the white oceans and skies, gave me really great visuals as I was reading this poem. The image in the 4th stanza of one soul riding its lie on a colt(a baby male horse) with no brakes really brought the story to life with that action packed image. I do not know if it is significant that it is a baby male horse or not but it could be seeing that in To Julia de Burgos, she talks about how men are controlling. So, in this poem it could be that a man has taken her soul and not let her go, though I am not sure if I am reading too far into this.
I loved the last stanza. The way she basically says nothing is nothing in itself, just like zero is between zero and zero. Very cool use of imagery and ideas which force you to think but, at the same time allow for you to figure out what she is saying. Unlike some of the other poems where the poet forced you to think to the point of discouragement, forcing you to leave the poem and its ideas for sheer frustration as to what the poet is trying to get at.
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This is one of my favorites too. Glad you liked it. You've hit the nail on the head too. All of the use of negative terms (nothing, none, nobody, never) to describe clearly positive, present situations (i.e. the sensuality of a kiss) say a lot while saying very little, or rather...nothing.
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