If i’m being completely honest this work was really hard to understand and gather meaning from. One overall theme that I noticed however was the theme of rotation. Shed XII maintains a fascination with bicycles throughout the text. This fascination completes its course when it turns into a plan bicycle in the end of the story. However, loops, circles, motorcycles, wheels and barrels all make an appearance in the text. Usually these circular objects where aided by a sense of motion and travel as the bicycle itself was a symbol of escape. However the idea of circles and rotation were used as both a way to display off-landish fantasies, but also as a form of imprisonment, as in the case of the barrels. I could possibly understand the duality of the motif of rotation as a symbol of cycles. In that case rotation would bring about a new horizon and a new alien experience, but in the end one is stuck in the same loop: leading to a trapped feeling. I might be reading too much into the idea, but the sheer amount of circular\/rotational type things in this text can’t be for nothing. I was also confused when the shed starts dreaming of becoming a battleship as his escapist day-dreams almost always took the form of a bicycle. A battleship doesn’t have a concrete shape and generally symbolizes war and industrialization. Overall I was very confused by this text, especially about the ending, but context will surely help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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