>I was the shadow of the waxwing slain >By the false azure

>>9291928
Sez in the footnote it's about a little birdo whom flies smack into Shade's windowglass

hes a bird who hit glass and died

>>9291928
he identifies as the shadow of a bird that flew into a window

>>9291928
birds can't drive but they're important enough to write poetry about

He is on the other side of the windowpane. His name is John SHADE.

nothing he just wanted to use the word azure

>>9291928
Something about loins on fire.

Birdo hit a window because he thought it was the sky (azure)

The narrator was the shadow of the birdo

>>9291928
Dat aesthetic imagery

>>9291945
it's a good word.
>>9291949
:( sad for birdo

>>9291928
Something about a gay king of Zembla, I think

Is Nabokov one of the best writers of the 20th century? It seems like all his major works (Lolita, Ada, or Ardor, Pale Fire, Speak, Memory) are all masterpieces

KIIIIMBOOOOOTE

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>how the hell should i know?

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i am a birdo
who hit the window

windowpane = form of LSD delivery

Shade takes up the bird's fancied continued flight in the reflected sky (the image of the sky on the reflected window pane is itself an image of the imagination caught in the act imagining some dead bird's afterlife as one's own). So the fellow who wrote 'Kinbote' above is quite correct. The first two lines of the poem contain further implications if the poem- and the notes- are considered in the whole.

>>9292425
Damn