Repeated or opposing words, ideas, or figures
of speech
Science is usually thought of as the opposite of religion, but throughout
the poem ("saint" "rosary" "cell" etc.) it is personified as a religious
person.
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Repeated or opposing words, ideas, or figures
of speech
Implicit contrast between what can be seen, counted, classified (the
stars, the fish, the prayers on the rosary) versus what is ambiguous, cannot
be contained in finite categories (the roar in the seashell).
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Repeated or opposing words, ideas, or figures
of speech
Perfect is the highest or best, but also a fixed (and paradoxically
inadequate) limit.
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