Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon, And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—
Who is speaking? Lil or the voice?
10 Matching Annotations
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
The chasing footsteps of time and contextual meaning in Marvell's THCM (lines 21-22) in relation to the new industrial age
What is "Sweeney"?
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for I speak not loud or long.
simple pursuit, similar to the purity of a nuptial song
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Leman
Private, from Eliot himself
- Wrote part of the poem at Lake Geneva (Lac Léman)
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What is this?
- Denotes the woman's speech
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'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'
A conversation between two people; perhaps man and woman, husband and wife
- Man's silence; inner thoughts and unwillingness to communicate
- Woman's persistence and exasperation
- Eliot's annotations: photography(?) Eliot's annotation suggests that he thought the stanza was too plain, simply describing the woman's emotions through direct portrayal (like a photograph). Perhaps this reveals Eliot's true impressions on the relationship between man and woman: A Game of Chess.
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echt
political struggles and ambiguity in national identity during the modernist era
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us
ambiguous yet complete shift in attitude from three lines prior (from dried tubers in snow to light showers over lakes and coffee in courtyard gardens)
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feeding
continuous enjambment (lines 1-6), reemergence of life through the changing of the seasons
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us
ambiguous, from voices of loss ("A little life", line 7)
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