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How would you explain the title metaphor? What is a hurt locker?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What elements does Paterson keep from the original? What new elementsdoes she add?
 
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Answer to Question 1


  • A hurt locker is an imaginary container in which soldiers place memories that are too unbearable to live with.



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  • Paterson retains the four-line stanza form as well as Dickinsons distinctive punctuation (that is, her generous use of dashes) and idiosyncratic capitalization. But she introduces contemporary, comic details that jar humorously against the original. The speaker is chauffeured not by Death but by a garbage collector and the smells of rubbish, references to dumpsters, and the like draw an earthy picture that is very far removed indeed from the lofty cosmic thoughts of the original. Yet for all the low humor, the theme here, too, is mortality, the cycle of life, the inevitability of spoilage and decay and, yes, death, as represented by the dead cats and maggot-lined cans: this poem is a contemplation of the detritus of everyday existence in which the journeys destinationa dumpis depicted as a sort of grave.






 

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