LITERARY ANALYSIS.-177. take wing. What is the figure of speech? (See Def. 20.) 179-181. How does the author express death in battle? In shipwreck? What is the figure of speech? (See Def. 28.) Translate it into 183. sin. the concrete. 186-189. He faded... behind. Point out examples of an exquisite choice of words. 189. for those he left behind. The elder brother would be the sole survivor, yet the plural is used. "There is much delicacy in this plural. By such a fanciful multiplying of the survivors the elder brother prevents self-intrusion; himself and his loneliness are, as it were, kept out of sight and forgotten."HALES. 193. As a departing, etc. What is the figure of speech? What word alone arrests the hyperbole ? 190 195 A little talk of better days, I called, for I was wild with fear; I knew 'twas hopeless, but my dread I called, and thought I heard a sound I burst my chain; with one strong bound I only stirred in this black spot; Th' accursed breath of dungeon dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link A frantic feeling, when we know 200 205 210 215 220 225 That what we love shall ne'er be so. I could not die, I had no earthly hope-but faith, LITERARY ANALYSIS.-199. my own. Supply the ellipsis. 217. Which. What is the antecedent? 230. a selfish death. Explain. 230 IX. What next befell me then and there And then of darkness too. I had no thought, no feeling-none: 235 240 There were no stars, no earth, no time, 245 Á sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless. X. A light broke in upon my brain— It was the carol of a bird; It ceased; and then it came again— The sweetest song ear ever heard; LITERARY ANALYSIS.-231-250. The description of the deadly torpor that now came over the prisoner is of masterly force. It is in stanza ix. that Byron tries his power of language to the utmost, and displays best how remarkable that power was.-The pupils may select the most striking touches in this lurid picture.—An examination of the vocabulary may be made as to the proportion of Anglo-Saxon and classical, of long and short words, and of nouns as compared with words of other parts of speech. 251-258. By what is the prisoner delivered from the deadly torpor described in stanza ix.? Compare this with the mode in which the Ancient Mariner (see Coleridge's poem of that name) is saved from a like stagnation, by the sight of the fishes disporting themselves. What do you take to be the phi losophy of the matter? 250 And mine was thankful till my eyes But then, by dull degrees, came back But through the crevice where it came, A lovely bird with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, I never saw its light before— I ne'er shall see its likeness more. It seemed to me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate; And it was come to love me when And, cheering from my dungeon's brink, I know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird! I could not wish for thine- A visitant from Paradise; For-Heaven forgive that thought, the while 255 260 265 270 275 280 285 LITERARY ANALYSIS.-257, 258. And they... misery. 265-292. Paraphrase the touching episode of the bird. special beauty, tenderness, or pathos. Explain this passage. Select passages of But then at last away it flew, And then 'twas mortal well I knew ; A single cloud on a sunny day, XI. A kind of change came in my fate— I know not what had made them so- My brothers' graves without a sod; LITERARY ANALYSIS. worth - 294. Lone as a solitary cloud. "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills." 301. compassionate. Grammatical construction? Compare Words 312-317. Express in your own words the affecting circumstance noted in these lines. 315. their lowly bed. In what poem, previously given, does this expression occur? 290 295 300 305 310 315 |