3 Matching Annotations
- Mar 2021
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
I feel in this line that he wishes he was the monster that other people make him out to be.
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Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
The porcelain I feel is symbolic of something that is both fragile and refined. This could symbolize a strained relationship; one that the narrator wants to maintain, but it takes a good deal of care to do so.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
I chose this line because I think it means that the narrator is not wanting to be a tyrant, but he has been cast into this role. Since Hamlet is a play about a Prince who is so focused on revenge that he ends up destroying everything around him.
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