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- 4. According to stanza 3, what are the end results of the actions of “She” and “I” in “Song”?
- poem:
- she sat and sang alway
- by the green margin of a stream,
- watching the fishes leap and play
- beneath the glad sunbeam.
- I sat and wept away
- beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
- watching the blossoms of the may
- weep leaves into the stream.
- I wept for memory;
- she sang for hope that is so fair;
- my tears were swallowed by the sea;
- her songs died on the air
- 5. Describe the changes undergone by the person described in “Dead Before Death.”
- poem:
- Ah! changed and cold, how changed and very cold,
- With stiffened smiling lips and cold calm eyes:
- Changed, yet the same; much knowing, little wise;
- This was the promise of the days of old!
- Grown hard and stubborn in the ancient mould,
- Grown rigid in the sham of lifelong lies:
- We hoped for better things as years would rise,
- But it is over as a tale once told.
- All fallen the blossom that no fruitage bore,
- All lost the present and the future time,
- All lost, all lost, the lapse that went before:
- So lost till death shut-to the opened door,
- So lost from chime to everlasting chime,
- So cold and lost for ever evermore.
- 7. What “same one meaning” (8) is meant by “every canvass” (7) in “In an Artist’s Studio”?
- 8. What contrasting versions of the woman are depicted in the last three lines of “In an Artist’s Studio”?
- poem:
- One face looks out from all his canvases,
- One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans:
- We found her hidden just behind those screens,
- That mirror gave back all her loveliness.
- A queen in opal or in ruby dress,
- A nameless girl in freshest summer-greens,
- A saint, an angel -- every canvas means
- The same one meaning, neither more nor less.
- He feeds upon her face by day and night,
- And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,
- Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:
- Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
- Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
- Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.
- 10. What does the first-person narrator “fancy” (12) might happen to this woman some day?
- Ten years ago it seemed impossible
- That she should ever grow so calm as this,
- With self-remembrance in her warmest kiss
- And dim dried eyes like an exhausted well.
- Slow-speaking when she had some fact to tell,
- Silent with long-unbroken silences,
- Centered in self yet not unpleased to please,
- Gravely monotonous like a passing bell.
- Mindful of drudging daily common things,
- Patient at pastime, patient at her work,
- Wearied perhaps but strenuous certainly.
- (12)Sometimes I fancy we may one day see
- Her head shoot forth seven stars from where they lurk
- And her eyes lightnings and her shoulders wings.
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