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Page 68
... young girl turned harlot ; the wedding carriage trans- formed into a hearse . INTERPRETATION OF THE LINES : Literally , the harlot spreads the plague of syphillis , which , carried into marriage , can cause a baby to be born blind . In ...
... young girl turned harlot ; the wedding carriage trans- formed into a hearse . INTERPRETATION OF THE LINES : Literally , the harlot spreads the plague of syphillis , which , carried into marriage , can cause a baby to be born blind . In ...
Page 174
... young ' When maidens are young , and in their spring , Of pleasure , of pleasure let ' em take their full swing , Full swing , full swing , And love , and dance , and play , and sing , For Silvia , believe it , when youth is done ...
... young ' When maidens are young , and in their spring , Of pleasure , of pleasure let ' em take their full swing , Full swing , full swing , And love , and dance , and play , and sing , For Silvia , believe it , when youth is done ...
Page 390
... young ' 174 ' When my mother died I was very young ' 34 ' when serpents bargain for the right to squirm ' 295 ' Whenever Richard Cory went down town ' 336 ' Where's the Poet ? show him ! show him ' 5 ' While going the road to sweet Athy ...
... young ' 174 ' When my mother died I was very young ' 34 ' when serpents bargain for the right to squirm ' 295 ' Whenever Richard Cory went down town ' 336 ' Where's the Poet ? show him ! show him ' 5 ' While going the road to sweet Athy ...
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