3 Matching Annotations
- Mar 2021
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“That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.”
We often worry about a single choice before we even begin to thing about making it. It can eat us alive, the fear of making the wrong choice, but we'll get no where if we don't move at all. We lose both choices if we hesitate, if we worry over all the consequences before considering all of the positive aspects.
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(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
This is what I love about Eliot, he can mix whimsical with the serious, the silly with the profound.
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To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
To me, this is the line that really soldifies my thought that this poem is about indecision. This question, "Do I dare? and "Do I dare?" It means that two different options can sometimes lead you to the same place, but you just have to make that leap, that choice.
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