ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Simile, Carom Billiards
10 Dec 2015
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Lecture # 22 nov. 19 on the death. Consciousness produces fear, nightmares are momentos of death reminder that you are going to die. In sleep, there are no mediations on death, one is simply being, one is only asleep. The speaker meditates on death because they know what it is, death is more painful for the speaker than it is to the cat. To you: iam: death didn"t mean anything to the cat, but to the speaker it does. The lines following dear could be an ode to the cat. Or it could be used an adjective. The cat was so dear to the speaker, he will list all the qualities of the cat that really stood out. Let me explain the ways that you were dear to me. The speaker says goodbye to the cat through imagery that he recalls. Stealth of innocence : image of the cat sneaking around.
