ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Miller Williams, Litotes
22 Dec 2015
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Engl1f97 miller williams, thinking about bill, dead of aids . Thinking of friends afraid to shake your hand, we think of your hand shaking, your mouth set, your eyes drained of any reprimand. Loving, we kissed you, partly to persuade both you and us, seeing what eyes had said, that we were loving and were not afraid. As it was, we stood next to your bed, stopping, though, to set our smiles at the door. Only because, not knowing anything yet, we didn"t know what look would hurt you least. Structure: six regular stanzas (a,b,a rhyme scheme except in 6th stanza last . Tense when is poem spoken? (past tense or past perfect except for stanza 3, which is in present continuous) Military metaphors (body as battlefield, defensive guards have rescinded or (title also tells us that bill is already dead) annulled orders, disobeyed, pulled its guards back from its borders )
