An Introduction to the Analysis of Bird-Witted (3225 words, 15 pages)
Jeanne HeuvingIf "Bird-Witted" depends for its meaning on aconventional narrative sequence and the contrast between the quick instinctive bird andthe slow, intellectual cat, "The Paper Nautilus" is unified through its centralsymbol, a chambered nautilus shell, and an opposition between inner and outer. The poem,in fact, was written as a gift ...
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