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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours agoI think this whole paragraph is just very melodramatic, him saying that he’d rather die than be without her and then changing his mins and saying he’d rather stay alive and suffer forever.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto V, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours, 5 minutes agoI like how here it shows that this woman’s expressions hold so much power, she is not actually killing and reviving him, but she holds power over him with what facial expressions she makes.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours, 9 minutes agoI think the name Sir Plume adds to the ridiculous and satire tone of the story, and maybe pokes fun at fancy people who have titles like sir.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto IV, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours, 14 minutes agousually air is seen as something good and needed for health, but in this case the grotto is keeping air out, which adds to the dark and gloomy tone
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours, 28 minutes agothis paradox sticks out to me because the scissors have to join together, to divide the piece of hair, two contrasting phrases.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto III, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours, 32 minutes agoI like how in this paragraph all of the cards are being treated like real people, giving it the feel of a battle scene.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 10 hours, 36 minutes agoits interesting that the spirits can be stopped by basic beauty products like vials and pins, this adds to the satire theme.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto II, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 13 hours, 10 minutes agoI had to google what Billet-doux means, its the French word for love letter , I’m thinking this may be Pope showing his world knowledge of other languages.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 days, 10 hours agoWhat I don’t get here is the use of all the different B female names, rotating between Betty, Belinda and Belle, this made reading the poem more confusing.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Canto I, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 days, 11 hours agoWhat I don’t get here is why there are seemingly random words capitalized, each line has words capitalized and there doesn’t seem to be a pattern.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week agoMontegu ends multiple sections with the sentence “Beauty is fled…” to show the point that people place so much value on beauty and looks but it is something that does not last.
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Norah Emery commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week agoMontagu uses the capitalized words in this section to show all the different types of men from all different social groups that are attracted to the speakers beauty.
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Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 1 day agohello
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