Both Uses of
sever
in
As I Lay Dying
- Above the ceaseless surface they stand—trees, cane, vines—rootless, severed from the earth, spectral above a scene of immense yet circumscribed desolation filled with the voice of the waste and mournful water.†
Chpt 34
- From here they do not appear to violate the surface at all; it is as though it had severed them both at a single blow, the two torsos moving with infinitesimal and ludicrous care upon the surface.†
Chpt 37 *
Definition:
to end or cut off completely -- either physically or in relationships