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... questions that are by no means exhaustive. Following is a list of questions that you may apply to any poem or that your instructor may wish to use, in whole or in part, to supplement the questions to any particular poem. You will not be ...
... questions that are by no means exhaustive. Following is a list of questions that you may apply to any poem or that your instructor may wish to use, in whole or in part, to supplement the questions to any particular poem. You will not be ...
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... QUESTIONS 1 . What figures of speech are used in stanzas 2 and 4? 2. Traditionally, lovers vow to be faithful forever to their sweethearts. Burns, in "A Red, Red Rose" (page 101), declares he will love his sweetheart "till a' the seas ...
... QUESTIONS 1 . What figures of speech are used in stanzas 2 and 4? 2. Traditionally, lovers vow to be faithful forever to their sweethearts. Burns, in "A Red, Red Rose" (page 101), declares he will love his sweetheart "till a' the seas ...
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... question asked in the last two lines? FRAGMENT Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1 939 ) QUESTIONS 1. Yeats here combines historical and Biblical allusions ...
... question asked in the last two lines? FRAGMENT Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1 939 ) QUESTIONS 1. Yeats here combines historical and Biblical allusions ...
Contents
William Shakespeare Spring | 11 |
CHAPTER TWO Reading The Poem | 19 |
EXERCISE | 26 |
Copyright | |
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A. D. Hope A. E. Housman accented syllables Alfred alliteration allusion beauty bird Collected Poems connotations consonant Copyright dark dead death dream e. e. cummings Edwin Arlington Robinson effect Emily Dickinson emotion Explain eyes feel feet figures of speech flowers give hand hear heart heaven human iambic idea imagery images irony John kind language light lilac-time literal live look lovers Macmillan Company meaning metaphor meter metonymy metrical moon morning mother never night onomatopoeia paradox pattern pause poet poetic poetry QUESTIONS reader repetition Reprinted by permission rhythm Robert Frost rose sense Shakespeare sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stand stanza star sweet symbol Ted Hughes tell thee things thou thought tone tree Ulysses verse Villa Sciarra Vocabulary voice W. H. Auden West-running Brook William Butler Yeats wind words