The poems often detail their own state of evanescence: in "A 316," Dickinson addresses the "sumptuous moment" and entreats it to "Slower go / That I may gloat on thee".
The poems often detail their own state of evanescence: in "A 316," Dickinson addresses the "sumptuous moment" and entreats it to "Slower go / That I may gloat on thee". Except that the actual manuscript has multiple anomalies, cross-outs, and alternate words surrounding the lines I have just quoted.
And it is here, in the implication of Angelo, in the doubling of retraction and accusation, that we might remember the line's status as a metadiscursive act, one of participation and observation, and entreat it to Berger's ethical concerns.
Him they had seized upon when leaving his ship, although in the character of embassador he bore the general's commission to them, and thrown into chains: then after the battle was fought, they sent him back, and in suing for peace cast the blame of that act upon the common people, and entreated that it might be pardoned on account of their indiscretion.
Though the specific elements don't amount to much — a Burger King, a Pizza Hut, a couple of movie theaters, and nightclubs with doormen who are alternately entreating and threatening — it all comes together to create a lively gathering spot for 20-somethings spilling out of nearby pubs by around 11 p.m., most of whom clearly don't want the night to end.
I looked at him imploringly, silently entreating him to intervene.
Even when the music seems to promise a melancholy meander (until a historically correct friend disabused me, I'd spent years convinced that 'Let's Hang On' was entreating, 'Let's hang up'), it can prise the saggiest of Sixties bottoms out of their chairs.
With its lack of high-tech distractions, it entreats you to sit back and enjoy the ride in regal style.
As part and parcel of being a "good" military spouse, it entreated new spouses to have at least two pairs of white gloves on hand at all times as well as a well-stocked stationery box.
After 27 class sessions barreling through course material, the last lecture is his opportunity to remind students of the inequality in the world, point out their relatively privileged position in it, entreat them to have compassion for others and, as the often-emotional students make clear, tug a bit at their heartstrings.
It entreats gays to "be nice" to the poor transsexuals, which sounds beyond patronizing.
