Being the first analysis I have in the blogging world. I hope this goes over well....
In the poem Two Countries by Nye, the idea of never letting go of the past is something that is emulated in every word. The skin is used to describe the hurt of lifes injustices that may have not left a mark. Your mind maybe able to forget the lonelyness that you may have experienced at one point in your life, when someone broke your heart. But as nye writes " Skin ate, walked, slept by itself, knew how to raise a
see-you-later hand." Sometimes life just goes on auto repeat through the days that are sometimes too hard to take full on. Thats when your tough outter skin kicks in to help you do your daily tasks and keep badness out with apparently a "see you later hand".
I liked this poem for its line in the last stanza "Skin had hope, that's what skin does.Heals over the scarred place, makes a road." No matter how corny it is, life is truly a journey. Skin is viewed as your outter shell to keep harmful things away from you. I may not be able to protect myself from all the horrible things but at least there is something by nature that helps me rebuild after my falls.
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