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Babel
Tower of Babel, symbol of human pride.
minor
First appearance: epigraph
Babel shows up with force in XLIII: England. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Referenced as a prime example of pride and divine judgment.
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs in the stanza’s shift from defensive rebuke (“O rail not”) to a pr…
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