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Waking in the Blue Analysis Jac Cameron
Waking up, mares nest – waking up from a nightmare, negative annotations ‘ The night attendant, a B. U sophomore, rouses from the mare’s – nest of his drowsy head propped on the meaning of meaning.
Azure day – amplifies his imprisonment, and depression. Reference to the colour blue He catwalks down the our corridor. Azure day make my agonized blue window bleaker.
Crows maunder – personification, and crows are symbolic for death Crows maunder on the petrified fairway. Absence. My hearts grow tense as though a harpoon were sparring for the kill.
Mentally ill – he is admitting to his own mental health. Along with the used rhyming couplets with the work ill and kill This is a house for the ‘mentally ill’
Once a Harvard all American full back – living in the past, using the words now and once in conjunction with each other What use is my sense of humor? I grin at Stanley now sunk in his sixties, once a Harvard all American fullback, (if such were possible!)
“ramrod” – illustrating his muscular figure but maybe a lack of intelligence. Jock like Still hoarding the build of a boy in his twenties, as he soaks, a ramrod with a muscle of a seal in his long tub,
Crimson gold-gap – living in the shadow of his former self by wearing his old Harvard cap Vaguely urinous from the Victorian plumbing, A kingly granite profile in a crimson gold-cap, worn all day, all night, he thinks only of his figure,
“More cut off from words than a seal” – words can symbolize thoughts and means he is detached from reality Of slimming on sherbet and ginger ale – more cut off from words than seal. This is the way day breaks in Bowditch Hall at Mc. Lean's; the hooded night lights bring out ‘Bobbie’ Porcellian ‘ 29, a replica of Louis XVI without the wig – redolent and roly-poly as a sperm whale, as he swashbuckles about in this birthday suit and horses in chairs.
Slightly sarcastic in saying that they are overly courageous and arrogant These victorious figures of bravado ossified young
Juxtaposition of time by contrasting the mayflower, which is ever changing, and the church, which is a timeless figure in history In between the limits of day, hours and hours go under the crew haircuts and slightly too little nonsensical bachelor twinkle of Roman Catholic attendants. There are no Mayflower screwballs in the Catholic Church
Looks in the mirror and sees his future, filled with self doubt and the realisation that he belonged in the institute After a hearty New England breakfast, I weigh two hundred pounds this morning. Cock of the walk, I strut in my turtle-necked French sailor’s jersey before the metal shaving mirrors, and see the shaky future grow familiar in the pinched, indigenous faces of these thoroughbred mental cases, twice my age and half my weight.
‘Locked razor’ – representation of the idea that they are unable to look presentable and they have let themselves go We are all old timers, each of us holds a locked razor. ’
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