John Ashbery

Dramedy

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Dramedy - meaning Summary

Fragmented Memory and Everyday Surreal

Dramedy sketches a speaker's loosely connected recollections and observations that shift between mundane details and surreal intrusions. The voice moves through images of espionage, miniseries, travel and water, suggesting displacement, interrupted memory and tentative attempts at narrative closure. Short, fragmentary scenes create a tone that mixes comic understatement with odd melancholy. Readers should expect impressionistic collage rather than a single clear story; meaning emerges from juxtaposition and mood.

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Things I left on your paper: one of the craziest episodes that ever overtook me. Do you like espionage? A watered charm? My pod cast aside, I'll walk in the human street, protect the old jib from new miniseries. I could swear it moved in incomplete back yards to endorse the conversation, request to be strapped in. Then it will be time to take the step giving fragile responses, and finally he wrote the day. It happened in the water so that was nice. It comes ready conflated: vanilla for get lost, flavor of the time of his sponsor's destiny. Be on that sofa. I was crossing the state line as they were reburying the stuff. You break the time lock, the bride's canister    ... but we did say that we'd be back.

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