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How does “A Ballad of Dreamland” accentuate the unconsciousness of dreams? - “A Ballad of Dreamland”
The speaker wonders, “Under the roses I hid my heart. /Why would it sleep not? why should it start,/When never a leaf of the rose-tree stirred?” The rose tree highlights unconsciousness for the reason that its leaves are not flustered. Also, the speaker observes, “No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart.” The nonappearance of hounds, in dreamland, amplifies the oblivion of dreams.
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What is the implication of Parallelism in “A Child’s Laughter?”
The first four lines open with “All the.” The parallelism emphatically lays down the objects whose sounds that cannot match up a child’s laughter. Moreover, the parallelism hints at the speaker’s foregone conclusion as regards the tunefulness of a child’s chuckle.
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How does “A Match” disassemble the sorrow versus joy binary?
The speaker declares: “If you were thrall to sorrow,/And I were page to joy,/We'd play for lives and seasons/With loving looks and treasons/And tears of night and morrow/And laughs of maid and boy.” Love would make it likely for the loves to surmount the disparate frames of sorrow and joy. Giggles and cries would be handy in thrashing the binary. As a consequence, the lovers would not have squabbles as a result of anguish.
Swinburne's Poetry Essay Questions
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Essay Questions
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