ENG 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Truism, Chaps, Blazon
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Image of slow erection: line 13-18: blazon and resolving it. Ends on loving note: s2, 21-24: bleak view of life. No romantic consolation: 25-27: no meeting in afterlife, 27-28: gross parallel of vegetables. Shocking image of corruption: 29: out of date, old fashioned also c*nt, borderline insulting her, 30: lsut , 31-32: colloquial. I think unexpected comedy: s3: solution, vivid, sexual power, 33-36: you want it to. Natural sexual desire: 38: violent, sexy, rough, 39 devour each other, 40: chaps like jaws, 43-44: you expect iron gates of death, 45-46: uncertain lets fight death and dissolution lots of erotic energy. Are they the same as nature: s1. In garden, gets foretaste: s8: best garden was eden before eve, paradise without eve, classical viewpoint, s9: garden like sundial, celebration of nature as place of creativity, garden for place and soul to run free.