Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:47:44 -0500 From: Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: PLC: Marvell At 01:01 PM 12/3/97 -0500, you (Pat Sloane) wrote: >> How vainly men themselves amaze >> To win the palm, the oak, or bays, >> And their uncessant labours see >> Crowned from some single herb or tree, >> Whose short and narrow-verg`ed shade >> Doth prudently their toils upbraid -- >> While all flowr's and all trees do close >> To weave the garlands of repose. >> >> See what I mean about withdrawal from a problematic society for >> contemplation? And stylistically, see the conceits/puns? >> >Puns where? > >pat > If you have to explain a joke it's no fun (he said, utterly annihilating his professional existence). Well, here's one: upbraid, literal and figurative. Find others if you're of a mind. Donne was the previous major poet to do that particular kind of "conceit" in a really prominent way in English. I silently corrected two haste-induced typos from my earlier version (narrow not narrpow and gralands not garland). Gregory {Greg} Downing, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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