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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #1
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
After his young, charming wife Dora died of a disease, he took a long journey, during which he would think he and his old friend Agnes would have fallen for one another.
Now he is staying at her great aunt's house during writing his masterpiece, the very this story.
When I read to Agnes what I wrote, when I saw her listening face, moved her to smiles or tears, and heard her cordial voice so earnest on the shadowy events of that imaginative world in which I lived, I thought what a fate mine might have been - but only thought so, as I had thought after I was married to Dora, that I could have wished my wife to be.
My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur and must bear?comprised what I felt and what I had learned. But I loved her, and now it even became some consolation to me, vaguely to conceive a distant day when I might blamelessly avow it, when all this should be over; when I could say "Agnes, so it was when I came home, and now I am old, and I never have loved since!"
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if there is the blue clause to explain as to "so."
2. And I'd like to know if "Agnes" is implied after "be."
Thank you in advance for your help.
After his young, charming wife Dora died of a disease, he took a long journey, during which he would think he and his old friend Agnes would have fallen for one another.
Now he is staying at her great aunt's house during writing his masterpiece, the very this story.
Chapter 62 A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
.................................When I read to Agnes what I wrote, when I saw her listening face, moved her to smiles or tears, and heard her cordial voice so earnest on the shadowy events of that imaginative world in which I lived, I thought what a fate mine might have been - but only thought so, as I had thought after I was married to Dora, that I could have wished my wife to be.
My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur and must bear?comprised what I felt and what I had learned. But I loved her, and now it even became some consolation to me, vaguely to conceive a distant day when I might blamelessly avow it, when all this should be over; when I could say "Agnes, so it was when I came home, and now I am old, and I never have loved since!"
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if there is the blue clause to explain as to "so."
2. And I'd like to know if "Agnes" is implied after "be."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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I still don't understand it, but for the benefit of others who might, most editions of the text seem to have " what I wished" not "that I wished". At least one edition has "wished my wife to me ".
- I still don't understand it, but for the benefit of others who might, most editions of the text seem to have " what I wished" not "that I wished".
- At least one edition has "wished my wife to me ".
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I still don't understand it, but for the benefit of others who might, most editions of the text seem to have "what I wished" not "that I wished". At least one edition has "wished my wife to me".
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