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The Halo That Would Not Light Analysis
The poem The Halo That Would Not Light sent me on a religious journey with the title itself. According to Merriam Webster, a halo is a circle of light that is shown in a religious painting, drawing, etc., around the head of a holy figure (such as an angel, saint, or god). Which leads me to believe that there is a religious figure that this person is looking forward to coming but their halo will not light which means they never came. In the first couple of lines, “When, after many years, the raptor beak let loose of you,” it is an explanation over the years of this persons lifetime that were not the best which leads into, “He dropped your tiny body in the scarab-colored hollow of a carriage,” and this person either being abandoned or left out
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