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After A Time Catherine Davis Summary
“Time after Time” A very direct use of language as well sets the tone and them for this piece. First stanza takes on more of a somber mood. Death equals loss. Catherine Davis villanelle piece reflect upon how we all generally deal or except death when it comes. She sets off her tone/response with the first two lines in the first stanza with an absolute statement that, “After a time, all losses are the same”, which she implies that no matter the type of loss, time is the ultimate healer. Although through the next line Davis takes on more of a pessimistic, but realistic view on when we lose something (death) “one more thing lost is one thing less to lose”. On the other hand she views death as a rebirth of innocence/equality as,” we go stripped
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