... Thomas leaves open to interpretation) and his only friend. Even though the reader does take solace in the fact the hunchback at least "has his nights," Thomas's closing lines, " the birds the grass the trees the lake and the wild boys innocent as strawberries had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 39-43) leave the reader steeped in thoughts of violence and chaos, a highly representative literary ... his wings melted and he fell into the sea. Auden writes, "In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate