Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0229 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Quick" Means Living
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The idea
Sonnet fifty-five promises that neither "Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn" the record of the beloved. Quick means living or lively, the sense preserved in the quick and the dead. Speed is a later narrowing and makes the fire merely fast rather than alive.
In practice
Quick fire is living fire.
Where people slip
Speed is the later sense.
Your place on the trail
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