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  • Essay / Hunting List Analysis - 2487

    Strangely enough, the speaker's advice makes the reader wonder why he wanted to give away the location of the deer if no one can catch it. The speaker expresses this statement in the following lines: “He who announces his hunt, I put beyond doubt,/ So that I may spend his time in vain.” » (9-10). The poet arranges this sentence to specifically deliver this message to all hunters and to a possible singular person. For example, place nine zones on the speaker stating that "he puts it beyond doubt." This shifts the message to an individual since the word “him” is a singular pronoun. However, by reading this sentence from subject to verb, the speaker emphasizes that anyone who attacks the deer will undoubtedly spend their time in vain like him. Why would the speaker reveal the location of this deer if he tells all the hunters that they have no chance of catching it? For this reason, the deer must be incompletely captured. The “I have put it beyond doubt” clause shows that the possible sole owner has doubts about whether he also caught the deer. Thus, the speaker announces this uncertain subject with unjustifiable certainty; the speaker refuses to give up his place in the deer hunt at this time