Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0223 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Brave" Means Defy
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The idea
The couplet of that same sonnet says nothing withstands Time's scythe "Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence". Here brave is a verb meaning to defy or face down. One poem, one word, two senses, and only the grammar and the object separate them.
In practice
Now the word is a verb.
Where people slip
Same poem, different sense.
Your place on the trail
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