Assertion: sonnet's line | /r/CapableOf | describe curving blade of a sickle
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text: “to bend to” means “to apply all one’s energy, attention, and concern on one object”; the “to bend to” construction here adds the idea of fixed intent on removing to the contrary idea of turning aside …; bends also suggests stooping (as opposed to the staunch uprightness of the seamark in the following line) and submission (as opposed to the steadfastness required to withstand time’s bending sickle in line 10—a line in which bending echoes bends but describes the curving blade of a sickle, the curving stroke with which a sickle is wielded, the binding of the grass before it, and the submission of grass to blade).