1 Its living marbles 1 jointed strong With glistening band and silvery thong, See how yon beam of seeming white Wakes the hushed spirit through thine ear Then mark the cloven sphere that holds 1 Its living marbles, etc. That 4 the cloven sphere... folds. is, the bony framework, and more By this figurative expression is specially the spinal column. Ex-meant, of course, the brain, which plain what is meant by "glistening is "cloven" or divided by the lonband" and "silvery thong." gitudinal fissure into two hemi2 seeming white light. spheres, irregularly marked by conWhite reflects to the eyes all the volutions ("folds"). rays of the spectrum combined. 3 lucid globes: that is, the eyes. 5 its hollow glassy threads. Explain. O Father! grant thy love divine 4. THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE. HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,2 That was built in such a logical way 3 It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it- Ah, but stay, Frightening people out of their wits, Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. 1 have sapped... life. Show the appropriateness of the image. How is the same metaphor continued? 2 one-hoss shay. Change from the dialect to the normal form. 3 logical way. Why a “logical" way, is explained in stanza 4. 4 Georgius Secundus. Latin for George the Second, king of England from 1727 to 1760. 5 Snuffy... hive. On what is this forcible metaphor founded? The epithet "snuffy" refers to the king's fondness for snuff, a trait noted by the historians. The ex| planation of the reference to the "German hive" is found in the fact that George II. was son of George I., the first of the Hanoverian line of English sovereigns. That was the year when Lisbon-town It was on the terrible Earthquake-day Now, in building of chaises, I tell you what, But the Deacon swore (as deacons do, It should be so built that it couldn't break daown. -"Fur," said the Deacon, "t's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 1 Lisbon-town . . down. In the great earthquake of Lisbon (Nov. 1, 1755), about forty thousand persons lost their lives, and most of the city was destroyed. 2 Braddock's... brown. Braddock's defeat took place July 9, 1755. Explain the metaphor "done so brown." Would this colloquialism be suitable in a serious poem? 8 It was shay. Note the droll effect produced by making the completion of the "one-hoss shay" coincident in time with convulsions of nature and the shock of armies. 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk And the wedges flew from between their lips, Do! I tell you, I rather guess She was a wonder, and nothing less! Children and grandchildren - where were they? EIGHTEEN HUNDRED; - it came and found The Deacon's masterpiece1 strong and sound. Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year FIRST OF NOVEMBER, - the Earthquake-day. - But nothing local, as one may say. There couldn't be-for the Deacon's art Had made it so like in every part That there wasn't a chance for one to start. 1 masterpiece, literally, a piece | observe this impressive maxim done by a master; any thing made ("moral"). with superior skill. & that runs at large. Explain 2 there's nothing truth: the metaphor. |