Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0412 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Evidence Amounts To
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The idea
Read as evidence rather than as accusation, his complaints describe a woman who smiled at people and liked things. He supplies no act of infidelity. The poem hands the reader the whole case and lets the reader see it is no case at all.
In practice
The case collapses on inspection.
Where people slip
He offers no act, only her manner.
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