Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0835 short lesson, about 20 seconds
An Argument That Proves
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The idea
Where Shakespeare's sonnets state and revisit, Donne's poem argues toward a conclusion, each image doing a step of the proof. Unit seven called this the metaphysical manner. Structurally it is a demonstration, and asking what step an image performs is the way into it.
In practice
Each image performs a step.
Where people slip
Ask what step, not what feeling.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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