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... Shakespeare (1564-1616) QUESTIONS 1. These fourteen lines have been lifted out of Act I, scene 5, of Shakespeare's play. They are the first words exchanged between Romeo and Juliet, who are meeting, for the first time, at a masquerade ...
... Shakespeare (1564-1616) QUESTIONS 1. These fourteen lines have been lifted out of Act I, scene 5, of Shakespeare's play. They are the first words exchanged between Romeo and Juliet, who are meeting, for the first time, at a masquerade ...
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... Shakespeare's sonnet. In fact, it is concerned primarily with that staple of small talk, the weather. On the other hand, Shakespeare's sonnet is concerned with the universal human tragedy of growing old, with approaching death, and with ...
... Shakespeare's sonnet. In fact, it is concerned primarily with that staple of small talk, the weather. On the other hand, Shakespeare's sonnet is concerned with the universal human tragedy of growing old, with approaching death, and with ...
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... Shakespeare (1564-1616) LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ...
... Shakespeare (1564-1616) LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ...
Contents
William Shakespeare Spring | 11 |
CHAPTER TWO Reading The Poem | 19 |
EXERCISE | 26 |
Copyright | |
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A. D. Hope A. E. Housman accented syllables Alfred alliteration allusion beauty bird Collected Poems connotations consonant Copyright dark dead death dream e. e. cummings Edwin Arlington Robinson effect Emily Dickinson emotion Explain eyes feel feet figures of speech flowers give hand hear heart heaven human iambic idea imagery images irony John kind language light lilac-time literal live look lovers Macmillan Company meaning metaphor meter metonymy metrical moon morning mother never night onomatopoeia paradox pattern pause poet poetic poetry QUESTIONS reader repetition Reprinted by permission rhythm Robert Frost rose sense Shakespeare sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stand stanza star sweet symbol Ted Hughes tell thee things thou thought tone tree Ulysses verse Villa Sciarra Vocabulary voice W. H. Auden West-running Brook William Butler Yeats wind words