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Just as he uses easily-recognizable forms, Paterson also takes on a familiar, didactic voice. The poem “Correctives?? depicts the narrator’s son who uses his right hand to support his left in an effort to write more neatly. As he describes this boy, Paterson derives a broader conclusion about humanity from the image: “the whole man must be his own brother / for no man is himself alone.” It would be easy to imagine this brief poem as a sort of family maxim delivered from generation...
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