Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0815 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Accumulating Octave
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The idea
The next lines pile up: looking on himself and cursing his fate, wishing to be like one more rich in hope, featured like him, desiring this man's art and that man's scope. The grammar is a chain of participles with no main resolution, and the syntax enacts being stuck.
In practice
A chain of wishes, unresolved.
Where people slip
The grammar itself is stuck.
Your place on the trail
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