Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1809 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Deep Heart's Core"
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The idea
The last stanza places the speaker on the roadway or on the pavements grey, hearing lake water lapping in the deep heart's core. The escape is not happening; it is being wanted from a city street, and the final line locates the whole poem inside the speaker.
In practice
He is on a pavement, not an island.
Where people slip
The escape is wished, not made.
Your place on the trail
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