CANTO ONE: "slain/By"

[David Morris]

I think both suggest an "agency."  The "falsehood" of the azure implies the
agency of something or someone for whatever purpose, most likely to fool the
waxwing.  And I think both are meant to be linked to the "cage keepers."

--- charles albert <calbert at hslboxmaster.com> wrote:
> "Feigned remoteness" suggests an 'agency" absent in the first example.....I
am not certain what that shift accomplishes, unless it is to link to the "cage
keepers".

> > "slain / By the false azure in the windowpane,"
> > "slain / By the feigned remoteness of the windowpane,"

Last night I focused again on the part of the poem which surrounds the second
"I was" above.  Shade contrasts his acute sensitivity and suffering with that
lacking in the "vulgarians."  He also contrasts his fate of being "fat, lame
and asthmatic" with the adeptness of these same "vulgarians," but then denies
his envy.  He denies his envy (which is self-evident by his name-calling
"vulgarian") EXCEPT for the miracle of the lemniscate left by these vulgarian's
nonchalant deftness.  That means he envies their ability, but it focuses this
envy on a symbol of infinity.

No conclusions...

David Morris

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