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RE: Old and Bitter (A Winter-time Poem)
I'm glad you liked it!
Now, I can definitely see "dark and brooding," but "indifference" is a very interesting word to use here, care to share more about what elicits this feel?
Is the sun not indifferent? It burns the just and unjust alike. He's a giant, a god, he offers no specific love or attention to anyone, they all are trod beneath his feet, and when he falls, he crushes everyone.
That's very interesting.
I thought of the children as the indifferent ones. Maybe they hadn't been, but the sun saw them as such.
And then it very purposefully decided to take its toys and go home, so to speak. Did it actively decide to kill them when he went away? Interesting question. I could see a read either way, and he's certainly indifferent in one of those reads.
And I agree, indifference as a concept also appears here, because at the end of the day, all the decision-making power lies in the hands of the sun.