Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0657 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Figure and Form Together
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The idea
A figure placed at a sonnet's turn does different work from the same figure in its first quatrain. Position inside a form is part of a figure's meaning, which is why the next unit takes closed and open form before unit nine takes the sonnet's internal argument.
In practice
Position inside a form carries meaning.
Where people slip
Where a figure sits matters.
Your place on the trail
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