The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments. A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier.
I realised this poem is about music. But I didn't quite grasp the meaning of the title. Fifths are perfect, diminished or augmented, aren't they? Or would you be refering to an imperfect authentic cadence, still a V-I, but an inversion on the V?
Saffy, the poem is metaphorical. It is about me, needing repair, so "fifths imperfect" is a poet taking literary license. Perhaps one could say I am perfectly me, that my fifths are perfect as fifths are, but I'm stuck in my own delusion thinking what is perfect, is not. :-)
Sparks, to read this. Frissons of excitement at the innovativeness of this poem, the creative use of metaphor description, I feel like anything I say would simplify the cleverness, as though it should sit just as it is, displayed, with just a following of breathless wows in this comments section. Wow.
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The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments. A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier.
ReplyDeleteI realised this poem is about music. But I didn't quite grasp the meaning of the title. Fifths are perfect, diminished or augmented, aren't they? Or would you be refering to an imperfect authentic cadence, still a V-I, but an inversion on the V?
ReplyDeleteSaffy, the poem is metaphorical. It is about me, needing repair, so "fifths imperfect" is a poet taking literary license. Perhaps one could say I am perfectly me, that my fifths are perfect as fifths are, but I'm stuck in my own delusion thinking what is perfect, is not. :-)
ReplyDeleteSparks, to read this. Frissons of excitement at the innovativeness of this poem, the creative use of metaphor description, I feel like anything I say would simplify the cleverness, as though it should sit just as it is, displayed, with just a following of breathless wows in this comments section. Wow.
ReplyDeleteMs Storm, your comment is noted and appreciated. Thank you.
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