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Miss Havisham - Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip's village. (Pip is narrating his story many years after the events of the novel take place, there are really two Pips in Great Expectations: Pip the narrator and Pip the character—the voice telling the story and the person acting it out.) She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men’s hearts. (Estella - Miss Havisham’s beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip’s unattainable dream throughout the novel. He loves her passionately, but, though she sometimes seems to consider him a friend, she is usually cold, cruel, and uninterested in him. As they grow up together, she repeatedly warns him that she has no heart.) ~ Spark Notes on "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
20 minutes to 9
Time stopped
Frozen life
In Satis House
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Heartbreak has nowhere to go
Once it is carved
Sharply in ice
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One shoe
Graced the wedding foot
Lame
Yin and Yang
~
One soul
Turned karma into a weapon
Tame
Raw
Gullible
Innocent youth ~
A child soldier
Who never knew
The games
Of a child
~
20 minutes to 9
Is an eternal flame
Transforming
The phoenix into
A wrinkling
Parchment
Fire bride
~
6 comments:
gemma,, just want to let you know that the prompt on top this week might make a nice venue for this post... i know you put one up earlier,, but thats ok,, this is really good and i think given the subject matter everyone would enjoy it,,, and it would help to spread the word about the easy street prompt site as well!!!!
This poem is very good - I love your use of the prompt. I liked how you used "20 minutes to 9" a few times - it's a cool poem Gemma.
Lovely poem - your use of words is magical.
Excellently done. I could almost see the mice nibbling at the wedding cake.
This took me right back to ninth grade English class! I love the poem!
This poem has nice sharp edges. The imagery is very energetic.
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