"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
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| + | This excerpt concludes the section and refers back to the title "The Fire Sermon," tying in the burning of passions with the feeling of despair so prevalent in modernist literature. This allusion to the Buddhist sermon applies his lesson to the text. The narrator in this section begs to be "plucked" from the burning, implying perhaps that the fire is not in fact a liberating tool but an abstract prison. The fire can also be interpreted as a war battle, in which the soldier indeed earns a detached emotional state. | ||
