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... QUESTIONS 1. Who are they ? How do you know ? 2. Sum up their story . 8 3. In your summary , what did you find necessary to say that Hous- man leaves unsaid ? 4. From your answer to Question 3 , what inferences can be drawn about the ...
... QUESTIONS 1. Who are they ? How do you know ? 2. Sum up their story . 8 3. In your summary , what did you find necessary to say that Hous- man leaves unsaid ? 4. From your answer to Question 3 , what inferences can be drawn about the ...
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... QUESTIONS 1. Robert Bridges , Hopkins ' first editor , gave this poem its title . What does it mean ? 2. In what places is the word order difficult to follow ? Try to para- phrase , adding any words that Hopkins has left out . 3. How ...
... QUESTIONS 1. Robert Bridges , Hopkins ' first editor , gave this poem its title . What does it mean ? 2. In what places is the word order difficult to follow ? Try to para- phrase , adding any words that Hopkins has left out . 3. How ...
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... questions , or even to most , would be a rare animal ; do not expect these questions to be univer- sally applicable . All this might look like dull work without reward and it would be if , having summed up the structure of a poem , we ...
... questions , or even to most , would be a rare animal ; do not expect these questions to be univer- sally applicable . All this might look like dull work without reward and it would be if , having summed up the structure of a poem , we ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats