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What realities are contrasted in the poem? How do we see the contrast between life and death, between interior and exterior?

From the poem naming of parts

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"Naming of Parts" intersperses the ambiguities of the sergeant's instructions to the squad about the manipulation of the rifle with descriptions of goings-on in the neighboring garden: "And rapidly backwards and forwards/The early bees are assaulting the flowers:/They call it 'easing the Spring.'"

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Naming of Parts