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Because the produce will be handled less, locally grown fruit does not have to be “rugged” or to stand up to the rigors of shipping. This means that you are going to be getting peaches so ripe that they fall apart as you eat them, figs that would have been smashed to bits if they were sold using traditional methods, and melons that were allowed to ripen until the last possible minute on the vine.
When you go local, your fruits and vegetables will be so ripe, that they will fall apart as soon as you eat them.
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filament, out of itself
the spider is creating a web
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ductile anchor
ductile means brittle or malleable; neither good qualities for an anchor. Oxymoron.
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ductile
adjective (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire. able to be deformed without losing toughness; pliable, not brittle. pliable pliant flexible supple plastic tensile soft malleable workable bendable bendy (of a person) docile or gullible. docile obedient submissive meek mild lamblike willing accommodating amenable cooperative compliant malleable tractable biddable persuadable
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Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere,
Poet can be refering to the spider web & whatever was caught inside it
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a little promontory it stood isolated,
At a high point the spider stood still without any sudden move
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Surrounded, detached
oxymoron. How can he feel surrounded and detached at the same time? Have you ever been in a large crowd but felt alone?
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detached, in measureless oceans of space,
the imagery creates a tone of loneliness and isolation.
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I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
"little promontory" the spider is hovering over his pray, and that said pray is alone
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detached
Detached like the spider before it connect to things via the filaments of its web. Here the metaphor begins to be revealed.
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speeding
? What does he mean by "speeding"?
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vacant vast
alliteration What do you make of the "v" sound? Harsh sound?
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