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==Questions To Think ABout== | |||
1. In Mallarme's "Saint", what is the significance of the viol? | |||
2. Why does Mallarme make refernces to the sandalwood window frame in "Saint"? Also, what is the significance of the sandalwood? | |||
3. Why would Mallarme refer to the "musician of silences" in the last line of "Saint"? Who is the musician of silences? | |||
4. What is the purpose of the reference to "Seraphim" in "The Tomb of Edgar Poe"? | |||
5. Why does Mallarme describe Poe's death as being triumphant? | |||
6. Why would Poe's blasphemy be "hurled to the future"(1565)? | |||
7. What is the faun literally doing in Mallarme's "Afternoon of the Faun"? | |||
8. Did the faun actually have an encounter or experience with the nymph's, or was it all just a dream? | |||