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Cicada

Cicada cicada

Grasshopper. Cf. the prophecy of Ecclesiastes, "the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail." Cf. also line 23.

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  →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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