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Section III, Stanza 5 Summary

Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.

Lines 58-61

With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;

  • Wow. No shiny, pretty, happy things here. In fact, not a lot of hope at all.
  • What might a "rapture of distress" look like on the page? We're guessing not too pretty.