Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0222 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Brave" Means Splendid
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The idea
Sonnet twelve watches the poet "see the brave day sunk in hideous night". Brave means fine or splendid, describing the day. No courage is attributed to daylight. The sense survives in the phrase brave show, and the adjective's position beside day is what fixes it.
In practice
The brave day is a fine day.
Where people slip
Daylight is not being called courageous.
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