NPPF: CANTO ONE (1)

[cfalbert]

Boyd also notes the similarity twixt Cedar, and Cedarn,  the "cave" from
whence Kinbote corresponds...

" From the relationship between the waxwing of line 1 (a cedar waxwing) and
Cedarn, the "ghost town" (C. 609-14, 235) where Kinbote sits as he writes
his commentary under Shade's influence, to the wheelbarrow in line 999 that
precedes by a moment Shade's death and so recalls the toy wheelbarrow
preceding the childhood fits in which Shade was "tugged at by playful death"
(P.140),20 the poem now explodes with "richly rhymed life" to a degree the
mortal Shade could never have imagined. "

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/boydpf6.htm

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