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heart” by Gradus, one could see Gradus as a manifestation of Shade’ s inevitable fate, whether as merely an ironic twist on the expected or a more genuine metaphor for his heart failure( 294). Granted, one could also read that line in the context of Shade exploring his mortality( with the meat-eating Gradus destroying his heart despite the best efforts of the vegetable loving Charles), but that folly has already been looked at more than enough in this review.
The strings fall away, and a clarinet( later replaced with an oboe) and piano play in tandem as the waltz-like section beings at about the 30 second mark. Here we see two notable female characters compared: Disa and Sybil. One notable parallel between the two is in the time of their marriages. Sybil married John“ exactly three decades” before the King married Disa( 173). This coincidental lining up of dates marks the two couples as paired together in some way, and suggests to the reader the two may share more similarities than it may first appear. As mentioned before, however, stark differences are also worthy of note. John and Sybil, by the evidence laid out in the former’ s poem at least, love each other. He says as much, starting lines with“ I love you” three times in his Second Canto when discussing her( 43). The nicest words his less-heterosexual counter-
heart” by Gradus, one could see Gradus as a manifestation of Shade’ s inevitable fate, whether as merely an ironic twist on the expected or a more genuine metaphor for his heart failure( 294). Granted, one could also read that line in the context of Shade exploring his mortality( with the meat-eating Gradus destroying his heart despite the best efforts of the vegetable loving Charles), but that folly has already been looked at more than enough in this review.
The strings fall away, and a clarinet( later replaced with an oboe) and piano play in tandem as the waltz-like section beings at about the 30 second mark. Here we see two notable female characters compared: Disa and Sybil. One notable parallel between the two is in the time of their marriages. Sybil married John“ exactly three decades” before the King married Disa( 173). This coincidental lining up of dates marks the two couples as paired together in some way, and suggests to the reader the two may share more similarities than it may first appear. As mentioned before, however, stark differences are also worthy of note. John and Sybil, by the evidence laid out in the former’ s poem at least, love each other. He says as much, starting lines with“ I love you” three times in his Second Canto when discussing her( 43). The nicest words his less-heterosexual counter-