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Students surface candidate descriptors from the canto, including ship, bird, bat, grinder, and giant, as the class searches for the right vocabulary for Lucifer's inert monstrosity.
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Bird
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"...is one of these words. What are some other words? A bird. He says a bat and a bird. What line?"
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"...saw impressed the savagery of one who then transformed became the bird that most delights in song."
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"...hunter who so used would waste his life in chasing after birds, my more than father said to me, Now come, son, for the..."
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"Even as birds that winter on the Nile at times will slow and form a flock in air, then speed their flight and form..."
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"...he rolled his eyes, said, Get away from there, you filthy bird! If you perhaps would like to see or hear, that sinner terrified..."
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"...two wings spread out. As broad, as suited, so immense a bird. I've never seen a ship with sails so wide. They had no..."
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"Bird? This is a simile, right? I'm saying, like, what are the words that directly..."
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"...light that crossed the sea. So swift, there's no flight of bird to equal it. When for a"
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"...which do not change as mortal plumage does then he, that bird divine, as he drew closer and closer to us seemed to gain..."
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"...a falcon long upon the wing whose seeing neither lure nor bird compels the falconer to cry, On me you fall, descends exhausted in..."
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"...was like what Jupiter's would be if Mars and he were birds. And had exchanged their plumages. After the providence that there assigns to..."
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