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on the king

R And on the King ...

Cf. The Tempest, I, ii. [Eliot's note] This is one of many references to Shakespeare's play. Again it is implied that Ferdinand is speaking these lines, and here refers to his relatives that he thinks have drowned.

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Shakespeare, The TempestThe TempestWilliam Shakespeare, The Tempest SCENE 2: The Island. Before PROSPERO'S cell Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA MIRANDA. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But th…Click for the full annotation → →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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