
Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”
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Is There a Vulta in a Sonnet?
After this moment the poem becomes increasingly philosophical. We move from like grounded descriptions to questions about love which sneaks in on suspected with a particular rhetorical force. The grammar is all off so we don't know what the agency is it going on there. It doesn't have 80% toward Hallmark cardie even though it doesn’t because the grammar is allOff and I'm just running with Bethany's suggestion of treating that line as a sonnet.
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