A miniature dry island with a brown shrub surrounded by blue waves in a shallow dish on an ochre surface.

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Dorothy Parker

My land is bare of chattering folk;

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A quiet landscape gets described in a single line. The speaker's land has no chattering people in it, which could feel like peaceful relief or like emptiness. Ending on a semicolon, the line leaves that mood wide open.

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