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Linguistically, the following sentence introduces the reader to what couldīe called subjective anxiety on the part of the speaker. This same “I” is also the fundamental counterpart of the exclamation point whichĮnds the poem, the latter being, symbolically, the decapitated “I.” This progressionįrom I to ! makes the stanza, unto itself, a window framed by image and counterimage,īringing what is manifest locally in such self-mirrored words as “waxwing” The predominantly optical tension between image and counter-image that follows. Literally the poem begins with a declarative “I,” a play on “eye,” formingĪ visual lattice that extends throughout the poem while preparing the reader for Finally, these states are themselves like two mirrors put side by side, reflecting ultimately into each other vis-à-vis the mirroring of punctuation. In this excerpt from “Pale Fire,” the speaker engenders an ironic reversal of tone via mangled comparison of two distinct states of being: that of the reflected, and that of the reflector. The dull sun of another week (another Wednesday)

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I’ll take you only as far as the Dairy Queen-”Īnd the city sky was painfully cracked and beautiful Laughed with a power known only to the innocent. It was like closing your eyes and spinning, likeĬracks of the sidewalk and the holes of my shoes,

You couldn’t have run as fast as I was running Relationships between objects and subjects Who had been frighteningly like my mother. I am narrating a story that is not about me.

Practiced Detachment in front of the mirror-Īnd even in the rare-bred silence, I am notĪlone on this street corner-I am one in many masses I’ve tried to fold in like a clam, a circadian flower, The inaccessible and the solemn and all of them When my heart made its own tacit revolution.Īnd it was rainy, rain bright against the city leaves,Īnd I could feel it, like oxygen, like breath,