What literary work and author is represented here? Who is sp…
What literary work and author is represented here? Who is speaking? What theme is this passage addressing, and what is the perspective or viewpoint on that theme? “I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—“ (for, you see, _______ had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) “—yes, that’s about the right distance, but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” ( _____ had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)
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Identify this quote and explain how it fits into the plot and theme that unfolds in the poem. It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Matched with an aged wife, I mete out and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
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Identify the poet and poem and explain how the message or perspective changes between the first four lines and the second. How does this passage show the poet’s characteristic ideas? Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells;Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices;Keeps grace; that keeps all his goings graces;Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is—Christ—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
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Identify title and author and draw a specific connection between this poem and a work by another author we read. What does this passage show about the work of that other author? When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore & that the little colony had so sprung up—But as we went along there were more & yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road.
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What are the characteristics of iambic pentameter (explain both “iambic” and “pentameter”)? Name a poem or type of poem from our period that features iambic pentameter. What is the poem and author, what is it about, and how does this passage fit into the thematic whole? What should fill in the blanks? You might also speak about the poem’s unusual form.
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