Waking in the Blue Analysis

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Waking in the Blue Analysis

• Jac Cameron

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Waking up, mares nest waking up from a
nightmare, negative annotations

• The night attendant, a B.U sophomore, rouses
  from the mares nest of his drowsy head propped
  on the meaning of meaning.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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!)

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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,

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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,

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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 McLean'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.

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Slightly sarcastic in saying that they are overly
courageous and arrogant

• These victorious figures of bravado ossified young

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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

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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 sailors 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.

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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.