Edwin Morgan and the Poem, Glasgow, 5th March, 1971

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             This is a good phrase to begin with because we immediately think of something sharp, sparkling and dangerously beautiful; when the words diamond and shop window are put together like this we imagine the shards of glass as small sparkling diamonds and even though the writer has said nothing of what sort of shop it is we subconsciously imagine a jeweler's shop. (He could have made the shattered glass into droplets of water radiating out from a large 'splash' to hold connotations of a fish shop - if the young couple were looking at pets
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