Sample Response: "Sea Fever” by John Masefield uses several poetic devices that classify it as a fixed form poem. It has three stanzas of four lines each; it has a repeating aabb, ccdd, eeff rhyme scheme; and each line is about the same length and uses the same rhythmic pattern.
Inferred you are referring to literary work.
Explanation:
Note that the writer uses the forest to paint how one would actually feel if one is alone in the forest, using the castle tower room gives the reader the idea about feeling unsafe in a seemingly safe place.
The symbolic significance of the forest setting tells us that the speaker may either be dreaming and as such be in an unconscious state of mind.
Thus, the speaker is frightened to the core because of his perceived ordeal in place of isolation–the forest.
Answer:
Hamlet doesn't kill Claudius at this point because he believes that Claudius is praying. He says that killing the king NOW would be "hire and salary, not revenge!" He simply cannot send Claudius to heaven, where he would surely go were he killed just after praying and purging his sins.
Explanation:
There was nothing in the house to demand care, to claim attention, to cumber my consciousness with it's insistent, unchanging companionship.
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This line in the passage shows that the things in the house are a burden. There was nothing in the house that could give care or attention to the people and were all materialistic things.
All this tells us that the things were not to be with the people and were all materialistic. They could not give companionship, love and care to the people and were only considered as a burden.
Answer:
The difference between having Hamlet say that life is like “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and having him just say, “Life isn’t very pleasant” is discussed below in detail.
Explanation:
The speech is basically all concerning life and death: "To be or non to be" indicates "To live or non to live" (or "To exist or to dissolve"). Hamlet considers how uncomfortable and suffering human life is, and how death (specifically self-destruction) would be excellent, would it not be for the terrifying possibility of what comes after death.
