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Old 07-28-2003, 08:56 AM   #489
Feanor of the Peredhil
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I travelled long, and never far
From reminders of my great despair.
I could not leave them, deeply scarred
Works I devised, and left them there.
Oookay... This one is on the edge of my mind, just out of my reach. So I'm going to try to break it down, just so you wonderful people can tell me if I'm going about it the right way.

If we follow the punctuation, it reads like this:

I traveled long
And never far from reminders of my great despair
I could not leave them
Deeply scarred works I devised
And left them there.

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I traveled long
Our (and we've been told male) subject is a traveler.

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And never far from reminders of my great despair
I could not leave them
So he was incapable of leaving behind the things (or people, or whatever, but we know it's plural) that reminded him of his 'great despair'.

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Deeply scarred works I devised
So we know that whatever his creations are, they were somehow screwed up.

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And left them there
This part I don't get. Is it that he left them there (as in he went somewhere else without them), or did he leave them there (as in he died and left them)? Sheesh. Now I've just confused myself. Tell me if my thoughts are working the right way!

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