Could you please elaborate on the meaning of this particular line, "If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would"? By the way, is it one of the standard literary devices writers use?
Later, WANDERING HER BEACH, she recited her favorite Amanda Hamilton poem.
"Fading moon, follow
My footsteps
Through light unbroken
By land shadows,
And share my senses
That feel the cool
Shoulders of silence.
Only you know
How one side of a moment
Is stretched by loneliness
For miles
To the other edge,
And how much sky
Is in on breath
When time slides backward
From the sand."
If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would.
Drifting back to the predictable cycles of tadpoles and the ballet of fireflies, Kya burrowed deeper into the wordless wilderness. Nature seemed the only stone that would not slip midstream.
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It means that if you are searching for something that understands loneliness, the most dependable place to find it is the moon.
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It's a poetic device. I wouldn't say it's a standard phrase, but you do tend to find this sort of thing in poetry.
It basically is implying that the moon is lonely, and therefore would understand loneliness in others, i.e. humans.
BTW, the poetic/literary device of attributing human emotions to non-human things (the moon, flowers, the sea, etc.) is call PERSONIFICATION.
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