One of the major instances of situational irony in the text is that of solitude and connection. Metaphors include "my life became a floating island," "every word they uttered was a dart," "My business was upon the barren sea," and "the horizon of my mind enlarged." Alliteration and Assonance Similes include "like a peasant I pursued," "to patriotic and domestic love analogous," the recurring "like a dream," "happy as the birds," "as a man, who, when his house is built.In impotence of mind, by his fireside, rebuild it to his liking," "as a kitten when at play," and "I was no further changed/Than as a clouded, not a waning, moon." One of the text's more elaborate similes occurs at the opening of Book Ninth, when the speaker muses: "As oftentimes a river, it might seem,/Yielding in part to old remembrances,/Part swayed by fear to tread an onward road/That leads dirct to the devouring sea,/Turns, and will measure back his course, far back,/Towards the very regions which he crossed/In his first outset so have we long time/ Made motions retrograde." In Paris, meanwhile, the speaker looks "as doth a man/Upon a volume whose contents he knows/Are memorable, but from him locked up."
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