1. Theme Descriptions of As I Lay
She's portrayed as Carl Jung's psychological analysis of Self. ... When Addie finally dies in her bed, after her life of pride, "Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candlesticks." ... She says: "I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth." ... Vardaman is full of confusion and loneliness, that he had at one time ran to the barn, where he touches the horses flesh as if he were reaching for his mother: The life in him runs under the skin, under my hand, running through the splotches, smelling us into my nose where t...
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