Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 21 AIL 2025 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Sonnet Says
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The idea
If his flesh were thought, distance could not stop him. Thought can jump sea and land as soon as it thinks the place. But he is not thought, being made of earth and water, so he must wait and weep.
In practice
If thought, then here; but he is not.
Where people slip
A conditional, then its refusal.
Your place on the trail
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