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... heads together , Fate had her imagination about her , Your head so much concerned with outer , Mine with inner , weather . QUESTIONS 8 121 16 1. What is the central metaphor of this poem ? Is it explicit or im- plied ? 2. What is meant ...
... heads together , Fate had her imagination about her , Your head so much concerned with outer , Mine with inner , weather . QUESTIONS 8 121 16 1. What is the central metaphor of this poem ? Is it explicit or im- plied ? 2. What is meant ...
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... head of thine . Next , Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His mantle hairy , and his bonnet sedge , Inwrought with figures dim , and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe . " Ah ! who hath reft , " quoth ...
... head of thine . Next , Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His mantle hairy , and his bonnet sedge , Inwrought with figures dim , and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe . " Ah ! who hath reft , " quoth ...
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... head . His friends assembled at the wake And Missus Finnegan sent for a lunch . First they brought in tay and cake , Then pipes , tobacco , and whisky punch . Miss Biddy O'Brien began to cry , " Such a neat clean corpse did you ever see ...
... head . His friends assembled at the wake And Missus Finnegan sent for a lunch . First they brought in tay and cake , Then pipes , tobacco , and whisky punch . Miss Biddy O'Brien began to cry , " Such a neat clean corpse did you ever see ...
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