Speare has been more feted in print than ever, in the mainstream as well as in the overflowing and sometimes murky underground river of academic publications. "Enough!" we may well cry (as we sometimes cry at the unending proliferation of productions of the plays). Not, however, in the case of Sir Frank Kermode, whose profoundly conceived and elegantly executed Shakespeare's Language (2000) was a complex but luminous contribution to the understanding of the greatest single body of dramatic work in any language, one of the most refreshing in recent times; any new commentary from him on the subject is eagerly awaited. Despite a brief flirtation with structuralism, he is no grand theorist. Instead, he is that rather old-fashioned phenomenon: a
He is recounting his most recent battle because Odyssey deals with Odysseus' return home after the wars and it is an introduction to his story.
This is best described as an essential past participle phrase.
It is essential, because the participle explains what happened to the bone to make it heal slowly. It is a past participle, because the bone is already broken, and has already healed (or started to heal).
Answer:
It uses archaic phrasing such as Grieve not so, indicating the poem is set long ago.
Explanation:
The main reason why we can conclude that the poem describes an event that happened a long time ago is because of the archaic language that the daughter uses to address her mother. The way in which the daughter talks is very different from the way most people nowadays talk. On the other hand, the fact that the daughter consoles the mother, that she is described as "just-grown" and that the little sisters are speechless could happen during any time period.
