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Tina,
He compares her effect upon him to "a new lightness", "sweet leaves", and
"subtle clearness". How is this a denial of her goodness? How does it amount
to a suffocation? You may be picking up on the hints of illness in "gauze"
and "aether" and "straitly", hints which are borne out by the explicit
reference later on to "winter's wound" -- but from the get-go she is depicted
as the rejuvenating cure of his malady, not as its cause... unless I'm not
picking up on something. Line 8 is still a bit of a mystery to me...not sure
I get the "half in half" stuff. Plato?
Tim
Christina Poppy wrote:
> tim,
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> I think there's a turn at line 7 with "Oh, I have picked up magic in her
> nearness/To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her."
> Before this he (speaker) seems to deny the goodness about her, she cloaks,
> covers, suffocates. but after this he compares her to spring, trees; he
> seems to progress from thinking 'she binds me' to 'she binds me, but she
> heals me; her binding (sheathing) protects me.'
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> theres no clear subject to 'hath' but I would suppose it relates to 'her,'
> since she seems to be the object of comparison to trees.
>
> tina
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