Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0616 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Donne's Twin Compasses
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The idea
Donne writes that if the two souls be two, they are two as stiff twin compasses are two. The vehicle is a drawing instrument with a fixed leg and a travelling one. A parting is redescribed as a geometry, and the image then runs for three stanzas.
In practice
Two souls as one drawing compass.
Where people slip
The image runs on for three stanzas.
Your place on the trail
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