Style In Poems By Rabindranath Tagore

5 September 2022
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Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again. This would be considered a lyric poem because of its
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short length and musical quality.
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Ornaments would mar our union; they would come between thee and me; Which phrase best illustrates the musical quality of the lyric poem?
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"thee and me"
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A metaphor makes a comparison
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that is between two unlike things.
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Have you not finished your work yet, bride? Listen, the guest has come. Have you not lit the lamp in the cowshed? Have you not got ready the offering basket for the evening service? By directing the questions in the poem to a bride, the author makes the reader
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NOT: think that the author already knows the answers.
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Over the green and yellow rice-fields sweep the shadows of the autumn clouds followed by the swift-chasing sun. What is the effect of the imagery used in these lines?
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The reader can visualize the fields and the sky.
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With a glance of your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets' harps, fair woman! But for their praises you have no ear, therefore I come to praise you You could humble at your feet the proudest heads in the world. The use of apostrophe in the excerpt causes the reader to
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gain insight into the speaker's feelings for the woman.
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Which of these are metaphors? Check all that apply.
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She is the sun of my sky. Life is a roller coaster.
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Speech directed toward someone who is absent or toward a thing that is personified is called
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NOT: personification.
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In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years. What is the effect of the figurative language in these lines?
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NOT: The metaphor illustrates what it was like to live in the past.