and I think I hear it
What's the connection between "hear"ing the ozarks and the rest of the poem?
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- Nov 2022
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they meetin my head like the walls of the Red Sea crashing togetherI roll dizzily toward themLike the bowling ball of a very bad bowler
This is an example of fragmentation. The author has pieces of vastly different places and people fighting each other in his head and doesn't come out with a sense of wholeness
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- Oct 2022
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Things fall apart
This was inspiration for Achebe's book Things Fall Apart. The book centers around cultural genocide and loss of religion so the title fits.
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Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Yeats is saying some sort of revelations is coming with the antichrist appearing. I don't understand the connection, though, with the first stanza.
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