Context questions and answers. Act 1 scene 1 Thou told’st me thou didist hold him in thy hate. … bur he, a loving his own pride and purpose, evades them, with a bombast circumstance. Questions Who is A in the speech above? Who is B in above statement? Where are the speaker? What does the …
Briefly comment on the structure/style of the poem. The poem is unique because of its stanzaic arrangements. There are twenty lines, divided into four stanzas of five lines each. A prominent feature of the structure/style is the deliberate use of end rhyming pattern is Ababa for stanza one. This pattern is maintained in the subsequent …
Account for the significance of the poetic techniques/devices used in the poem. The poem has several poetic devices ranging from allusion, alliteration, use of metaphor to repetition. These poetic devices generally create a positive impact in the language. The poem alludes to the creation story in the bible when god created everything and man in …
Examine the theme of the poem, pulley, pointing out how this is relevant to the message being portrayed. First and foremost, the word pulley is a wheel through which a rope passes to draw or lift something. In this poem, God has used himself as a representative of this pulley. He is creator of everything. …
POETIC ANALYSIS George Herbert’s poem is very philosophical and metaphoric. First, the title- “Pulley” derives from a wheel around which a rope passes for the purpose of lifting things. God, in this poem is the metaphor of “pulley” who lifts his creatures to himself. God created everything, including man. Having created man in his image …
Briefly examine the form and language of the poem- Birches. The poem is written in three stanzas of sixteen lines. While the first two stanzas have five lines each, the third and last stanza has six lines. The lines are relatively longer than normal poetic lines. There are no regular rhyming patterns in the poem …