Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0619 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Makes Me End, Where I Begunne"
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The idea
The poem closes by saying her firmness makes his circle true and makes him end where he begun. A compass drawing a full circle must return to its starting point. The conceit resolves into a completed figure, and that return is the promise the whole poem was making.
In practice
The circle closes where it opened.
Where people slip
The return is the promise, not an ornament.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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