'tropes of form'

'tropes of form' indeed, and the high-minded trope of form relaxes your debt, willing or unwilling to hate the others, pretending you 'love' when in the agon there is only struggle.

he lectures over the hall, proscenium halting in his speech,
the glare down voice, stares us down, indeed,
where is thy sting, death, where? where is thy trope
oh form of failure and the faery down plate
rivering the .


Now wait,
we speak

of this "...their formal modes as well as their complex articulations of those modes are all in themselves subtle and powerful formal and metaphoric versions of more traditional ones. " Hollander.

In the seminar, trembling in the room, voices caught in the hour. after the motorcycle crashed, i went to seminar after seminar checking to see if my hearing was right.
It was , I heard Milton's angels roaring. But we speak silence, and not consent, nor assenting minds. These tropes and ratios hear the silence in the lines.