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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Monument</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now can you see the monument? It is of wood<br>built somewhat like a box. No. Built<br>like several boxes in descending sizes<br>one above the other.<br>Each is turned half-way round so that<br>its corners point toward the sides<br>of the one below and the angles alternate.<br>Then on the topmost cube is set <br>a sort of fleur-de-lys of weathered wood,<br>long petals of board, pierced with odd holes,<br>four-sided, stiff, ecclesiastical.<br>From it four thin, warped poles spring out,<br>(slanted like fishing-poles or flag-poles)<br>and from them jig-saw work hangs down,<br>four lines of vaguely whittled ornament<br>over the edges of the boxes<br>to the ground.<br>The monument is one-third set against<br>a sea; two-thirds against a sky.<br>The view is geared<br>(that is, the view's perspective)<br>so low there is no &quot;far away,&quot;<br>and we are far away within the view.<br>A sea of narrow, horizontal boards <br>lies out behind our lonely monument,<br>its long grains alternating right and left<br>like floor-boards--spotted, swarming-still,<br>and motionless. A sky runs parallel,<br>and it is palings, coarser than the sea's:<br>splintery sunlight and long-fibred clouds.<br>&quot;Why does the strange sea make no sound?<br>Is it because we're far away?<br>Where are we? Are we in Asia Minor, <br>or in Mongolia?&quot;<br>An ancient promontory,<br>an ancient principality whose artist-prince<br>might have wanted to build a monument<br>to mark a tomb or boundary, or make<br>a melancholy or romantic scene of it...<br>&quot;But that queer sea looks made of wood,<br>half-shining, like a driftwood, sea.<br>And the sky looks wooden, grained with cloud.<br>It's like a stage-set; it is all so flat!<br>Those clouds are full of glistening splinters!<br>What is that?&quot;<br>It is the monument.<br>&quot;It's piled-up boxes,<br>outlined with shoddy fret-work, half-fallen off,<br>cracked and unpainted. It looks old.&quot;<br>--The strong sunlight, the wind from the sea,<br>all the conditions of its existence,<br>may have flaked off the paint, if ever it was painted,<br>and made it homelier than it was.<br>&quot;Why did you bring me here to see it?<br>A temple of crates in cramped and crated scenery,<br>what can it prove?<br>I am tired of breathing this eroded air,<br>this dryness in which the monument is cracking.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is an artifact <br>of wood. Wood holds together better<br>than sea or cloud or and could by itself,<br>much better than real sea or sand or cloud.<br>It chose that way to grow and not to move.<br>The monument's an object, yet those decorations,<br>carelessly nailed, looking like nothing at all,<br>give it away as having life, and wishing;<br>wanting to be a monument, to cherish something.<br>The crudest scroll-work says &quot;commemorate,&quot;<br>while once each day the light goes around it<br>like a prowling animal,<br>or the rain falls on it, or the wind blows into it.<br>It may be solid, may be hollow.<br>The bones of the artist-prince may be inside<br>or far away on even drier soil.<br>But roughly but adequately it can shelter<br>what is within (which after all<br>cannot have been intended to be seen).<br>It is the beginning of a painting,<br>a piece of sculpture, or poem, or monument,<br>and all of wood. Watch it closely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</a><div class=q>
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