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Now you’re brought where you’ve got to be.
Oddly, the addressee is assumed to be dead: we’ve got to imagine that we have just died as we read this poem. This gives it a sense of immediacy, and makes our fears seem more present.
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A house was built for you, before you were born.
The first line sets up this poem’s main conceit: the grave’s like a building, although as we’ll find out it’s not got all mod cons.
The poem is composed in Old English, the heavily accented proto-version of English spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons from around the 5th through the 12th centuries A.D.
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From 1820-1967, boys at Eton School (a famously ‘posh’ boys public school in Windsor, England) had to wear an ‘Eton suit’ if they were under 5'4", rather than the characteristic top-‘n’-tails outfit. Bloom is assuming that his son will get into Eton – which, if you’ve got enough money, is usually the case.
I would argue that Bloom isn’t necessarily assuming his son will get into Eton but rather imagining that he will wear an Eton style suit, namesake taken from the style of suits worn at Eton School
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Come on man, I taught you better than that. How much time did you save from omitting all that punctuation and capitalization? Are you going to go travel the world with all that time you just saved?
who here is from mr lyons class