When the woman does kill the flea, with her nail, he appears to admit that she's won the game. But, in the last three lines, he tries to turn the flea's death to his advantage by claiming it is of no real conse
As to what this act of Nature is, well, the reader is again challenged. The language suggests that the speaker has a close partner, a lover, a wife, a husband, a friend - so this natural act could be anything from death to conception. The repeat oftakeimplies experience, so the speak...
The artist Francis Bacon’s description of this soul-death was even more visceral, saying ‘the shadow of dead meat is cast as soon as we are born’. In another quote from R.D. Laing, he also pointed out that ‘To adapt to this world the child abdicates its ecstasy.’ In the 1993...
I had a failed marriage due to domestic violence and verbal abuse at me. I was locked up for defending myself, but I never hit her back. We separated after just under 40 years of togetherness. I’ve been blessed with three children. I live in a single flat in an older residence ...
I didn’t cry on my mother’s death. I felt nothing at all, and now? I feel like I have no heart. There’s no love greater than the love of a mother and her child. I’m writing this with tears flowing down as I am so hurt from the inside. Oh, Mom! You have been the ...