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\f0\i\fs24 \cf0 Candle Hat
\i0  by Billy Collins\
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Summary of the poem: The poem begins with self-portriats of famous artists--Cezanne, Van Gogh, Rembrandt. Then, it singles out Goya's self-portrait. He is wearing a candle hat, a kind of chandelier,  so that he can work in the dark. The speaker says that we can know more of Goya from his portrait than from his biography. \
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-Repetition of imagine in the last three stanzas. Imagine alludes to the fact that this is all just pondering which gives it a sort of fantasy feeling. \
-"laughing like a birthday cake" (22) shows mixing of senses... there 
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\b0  a term for this. \
-Allusion to many major artists and works of art. But why Goya? "In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates:" (1) shows that in Goya's self-portrait, he does not focus on his looks, he focuses on his candle hat and what it represents--he passion for work and art that even the setting of the sun cannot interrupt.  \
-Very sentence like, the stanzas have no clear, set number of lines. However, there are nine stanzas that all have one important idea to relate. The number of lines do not matter, what matters is that the speaker will have a main point no matter what the number of lines is. \
-Throughout the poem, there is a sense of magic and wonder. "Candle" is basically light. "Chandelier" is very bright and reflective. "Glow", "invention", and other words also allude to light and wonder. The fact that the last stanza describes Goya's bright head in a dark country, in a dark house, is proof of the speaker's admiration for Goya. \
-Imagery is ubiquitous throughout the poem. For example, stanza 7: "Imagine him flickering through the rooms of his house/ with all the shadows flying across the walls." \
-The lost traveler is like a viewer of his works, which are characterized by their surreality at a time of propriety and dullness. \
-Goya also seems very eccentric and warm, the way he is described as well as the way he welcomes a stranger.\
-Goya lives in the country, isolated and away from all the filth and complication associated with cities. \
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