as I approach
half of her stiffens
and half melts away --
every now and then
I hear a skylark singing
Magnapoets, 4, July 2009
To the Lighthouse: Literary Ghost, A "Specific and Powerful Type of
Allusion"
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In literature, ghosts rarely just haunt—they speak. A "literary ghost" is
one such spirit: a text, a phrase, or an idea from the past that refuses to
stay ...
