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On Poetry: Broken hearts are lovely, too | Local News | record-eagle.com. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
I am reminded of D. H. Lawrence's poem "Pomegranate," with its final lines:
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken.
It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
I wonder about the figure of speech — broken heart. I shall have to track down the origins. In literal terms, people die of broken hearts. In figurative terms, I suppose some also die. How odd.
ReplyDeleteThe American Heart Association web site has information on Broken Heart Syndrome.
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