Both Uses of
cavil
in
Leaves of Grass
- …and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them, My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like, The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh, My body done with materials, my sight done with my material eyes, Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see, Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.†
Chpt 11
- Where are your cavils about the soul now?†
Chpt 12 *
Definition:
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(cavil) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; or to raise trivial objections