1. Hamlet's third soliloquy conveys the heart of the paradox that underlies the play. Shakespeare's use of what is quaintly called the feminine ending, and his arrangement of caesuras and enjambments, formally execute the emotions inherent to Hamlet's monologue.
2. Just as Gunn's poem idealizes materialism as a mode of self-expression and a measure of identity, so too does Mullen suggest the importance of money in a "rotting" tangible world.
3. In every case where "perpetuity" and its analogs arrive, the word carries an undercurrent of blasphemy. With a single word, Milton posits an argument that questions the justice of God's omnipotence in the poem.
4. The ostensibly opposed conclusions Anderson arrives at when working with literature proves exactly the point that he maintains throughout "Cultural Roots": that the nation is an "imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" (7).
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