empty telephone

[lidiavianu]

Is an empty telephone a dead line or one at whose other end there is no one speaking any more? Ackroyd again. Lidia

[JK2]

It might help us to decide if we knew the sentence this comes from -can you give more info please?

[lidiavianu]

The poem is:

the empty telephone of yore and my sole self to fall asleep as a continuation perchance to talk with bated breath to here I am whose life has thus gone on

by Peter Ackroyd.
It seems to be a dead line, with no one talking at the other end, just the ghost of a former presence...

Thank you,

Lidia

[JK2]

Sorry liadiavianu it doesn't make any sense to me

[lidiavianu]

Thanks anyway.

lidia