Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-104.180.191.194-20160305015545/@comment-25936766-20170209031717

.....Alright, but I don't see how it means Summer or Qrow allude to the poems themselves. I mean, Qrow could allude to one of Odin's crows, not to the poem about them itself. The bits of "Thus Kindly I Scatter", and the poem about Odin's ravens, sound far more like just references.

Last time I checked, every character with confirmed allusion alluded to a character of something, not to something unspecifically.

Weiss, for example, alludes to Snow White, the princess, not the tale in general. Penny alludes to Pinochio himself, not to the book in general. Peter Port alludes to Peter from Peter and the Wolf, not the tale in general.

So I don't see why one should jump to conclusions and assume they allude to the poems themselves, and not to a character that's part of them.

Basically, because this in hindsight just feels like a problem of semantics: There's a difference between "alludes to this poem", and "alludes to a character that's part of this poem".

Qrow, for example, may allude to one of Odin's ravens. Not to the poem itself about them, but to one of the ravens themselves.