NPPF: CANTO ONE: Synopsis

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 22 12:42:14 CDT 2003


> A literal synopsis
> Not required.........

But a good idea...

> The poem opens with the waxwing hitting the windowpane

No, the phase is past tense thus not an "event" per se, which makes the comment
below possible, but I have other ideas.  It's is not necesarily a rememberance,
but more an analogy re. himself.

<(some suggest that the waxwing in question has been picked up by the boy
Shade)

Kinbote's suggestion of young Shades "experiencing his first eschatalogical
shock."  But since his parent's are presumably long dead, the lad would have
some idea of the concept of death.

David Morris

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