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Ladyofrocks

R Lady of the Rocks

The title "Lady of the Rocks" suggests Madonna (the Virgin Mary) and, therefore, the Madonna of the Rocks, as in Leonardo da Vinci's painting; the rocks symbolize the church (see note above).

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link two →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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