The City Limits | Summary
Lines 1–3
The first stanza of “The City Limits” does not consist of just one unit of language: it starts with a conjunctive phrase, “When you consider,” and finishes that idea in the middle of line 3, starting another phrase, again with the words “when you consider,” before the stanza’s end. By compiling one incomplete thought upon another before coming out with the main grammatical point, the poem goads readers to guess what they are supposed to find out in the end after they have considered all of the things being listed.
In this first stanza,...
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