look at the titel of the poem "the duel".does it give the reader any clues as to what this pome is about? how dose the titel make the pome funny

The title 'The duel' gives the reader clues about how this poem could possibly be about a duel of some sort. This is because the title inculdes the word 'Duel' and puts 'the' infront of 'Duel' to indicate that there will be a specific duel taking place in the poem.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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