poetry homework sheet week 1

Monday
pg 688

1. The speaker is old however it is talking about how their lover thinks that they are oblivious and inexperienced as a teenager
2. The speaker is talking of his wife's flattery if you read this line straight up it seems as though he is oblivious. It is to be resolved with both beliving their flattery believing her flattery. They are both lying.
3.  With the first simple it could be a giving up meaning easily or petty simply and the other is almost the same except in a more positive light means pure.
4.Yes and no because although he knows she lies he does as well so they live happily ever after.


Tuesday

Ch 5 review

1. Denotaiton-is the literal meaning of the word and connotation is the figurative meaning such as you are a dog in connotation meaning you are a bad person in denotation you are a canine
2. personification, apostrophe, metaphor, simile personification is the most evoking because it allows us to relate with something non human
3 Synecdote- a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
Metronym the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant for
4. Simile Metaphor Personification Apostrophe

Wednesday
pg.745
1. a. literal b.literal c. literal d.metaphor e. literal
2. I heard a fly buzz because it was talking about death and how time seemed t stop
3.Blake is wondering what God could make such a beautiful and terrible creature as the tiger this could be a symbol for the devil or a seductive woman.
4. a. symbolic b. literal c. literal d. symbolic e. literal f. literal g. literal h. literal i. symbolic j. k.l.

Thursday
759
1.offices- literal but in this case it is something that they cant do. alchemy-the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold 
2. the morning because of the line "late school boys..." king huntsmen and the prince and the sun as princess
3. The speaker disliked it and felt like they were a slave but then in the last paragraphs refereed to it as a woman.
4.Overstate  "Nor hour....which are the rags of time"

Friday
832
1.Stressed unstressed, Stressed unstressed unstressed stressed, The sun, Personification
2. it makes her tasks seem lenghy and tiring. It shows the way she speaks.
3. She is a single mother
4.The rain and snow and the night, the kiss of a lover or husband