One need not be a Chamber - - to be - - Haunted (670)

One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -

One need not be a House -

The Brain has Corridors - surpassing

Material Place

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting

External Ghost

Than its interior Confronting-

That Cooler Host.

Far safer, trough an Abbey gallop,

The Stones a'chase -

Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter -

In lonesome Place -

Ourself behind ourself, concealed -

Should startle most -

Assassin hid in our Apartment

Be Horror's least.

The Body - borrows a Revolver -

He bolts the Door -

O'erlooking a superior spectre -

Or More -

Internal suffering/fear

The mind is to be feared - mental fears/hauntings are worse than physical ones

Metaphorical comparision between two varieties of hauntings

The body physical protects itself - only to find its locked in with the 'superior spectre' of the mind

Unarmed against our own internal horrors

We expect/can prepare for dangers in Gothic castles ect but never in our own mind

Exact masculine rhyme - ominous effect

Ends with dash - unknown horrors cannot be prepared for - we cannot know what will happen next

'Corridors' constricting, dead ends, life options (doors)

repetition of safety

inner 'you' - parts of us concealed, trapped

Poem

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