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Comes the Dawn. Veronica Shorffstall, 1971. After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning And company doesn't mean security, And you begin to understand that kisses aren't contracts And presents aren't promises. And you begin to accept your defeats With ...
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Comes the Dawn by Jorge Luis Borgesmoves through the idea of ‘learning’ different ideas through relationships – the difference between permanent and temporary relationships, what is ’love’ and what is only ‘company’, ‘defeats’ and moments where you can hold your head high. You will eventually learn that nothing is certain in the future, so you much...
Borges splits Comes the Dawn into 9 stanzas. The line length of the stanzas varies, moving between 2-4 lines. The changing structure reflects Borges’ idea that the future is never certain, things can change in an instant and this must be remembered.
Borges employs a great deal of anaphora within Comes the Dawn, almost every stanza beginning with ‘And’ or ‘After’, compounding a sense of time passing. There is a repetitionto the poem, but not to the point to which it can ever be depended upon – as soon as you think the structure is stable and repeating, it changes. This form is again a reflectio...
Stanza One-Three
The first stanza employs enjambement throughout, only finishing on the last word of the stanza. This form suggests the passing of time, with the metrical speed that builds as the poem continues reflecting this concept. Indeed, Borges is exploring the transience of love and relationships, and is therefore touching on time as a central theme. There is a stalk difference between ‘hand’ and ‘soul\ within the first stanza, showing both forms of a relationship – serious and temporary. Borges argues...
Stanzas Four-Six
Love will teach you ‘defeat’, Borges is quite clear on this. Yet, it will also help ‘your head up and your eyes open’, the restorative and invigorating process of learning helping to expand and teach. Borges argues that you must only trust in the present, ‘build all your roads on today’, knowing that it is only this very moment in which we are truly experiencing and can therefore trust. The ‘futures’ of ‘tomorrow’ are ‘uncertain’, far to ‘uncertain for plans’, they have a tendency of ‘falling...
Stanza Seven-Nine
The most important lines within Comes the Dawn arrive in the seventh stanza, ‘So you plant your own garden and decorate your own souls / instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers’. Borges is suggesting that instead of waiting, and waisting, life on simply expecting someone to arrive and make you happy, take control of your own life. Be your own source of happiness, ‘plant your own flowers’, ‘decorate’ being a central verb that suggests the self inflicted joy that arrives when one be...
Sep 14, 2016 · Comes The Dawn. After a while you learn the subtle difference, Between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning, And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts, And presents aren’t promises. And you begin to accept your defeats, With your head up and your eyes open,
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Complete Translation in English: You Learn “After a while you learn the subtle difference, Between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn’t mean sex, And company ...
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In fact, the poem, “Comes The Dawn”, also known under the titles of “You Learn” and “After A While”, is one half of a longer poem “Aprendiendo”, which was written in Spanish and which has been attributed to Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), Argentinian poet, writer and essayist.
ComestheDawn. After awhile you learn the subtle difference. between holding a hand and sharing a life. and you learn that love doesn't mean possession. and company doesn' 't mean security. and loneliness is universal. And you learn that kisses aren't contracts. and presents aren't promises. and you begin to accept your defeats.
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Jul 6, 2014 · And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts. And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats. With your head up and your eyes open. With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today.
