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Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culplit - Life!
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Быть осторожным должен
Хирург, берущий нож.
Под скальпелем искусным
Виновницею — Ложь.
(Виновница–Жизнь — ложь.)
"Всяк человек ложь" (Псалтирь 115:2)
Эмили Дикинсон же хирургами называет двух критиков:
<<One might also see the poem as a metaphor for other operations. In Dickinson's case, there were plenty of "surgeons" willing to take the knife to her poetry: both Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Bowles – men she revered and sent poems to – not only encouraged her to smooth out her diction and rhyme schemes, but actually edited her poetry to that end. In retrospect, and as Dickinson suspected, they took a bit of life out of the poems in doing so>>.
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