28 August 2017: "Ha. It's so good to be back!" --a student in my ENGL 312 class.
You see, we were discussing Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and she realized how clever the poet is in her use of "Cain," evoking its homophone ("cane") and thereby subtly calling to mind the slave economy. Like so many readers (myself included, way back when), she missed it on the first read-through and delighted in realizing it.
That laugh and that comment: pure English major. She missed this stuff and is thrilled to be back at it.
Me, too.
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