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Question 2

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Answer:You might have produced results similar to these lines, which come from the first and last lines of the excerpt.

Thou, little dog, are one-third as hungry as we.

This river thy thorax is, these banks thy world.

Putting random words into the lines changed them from having obscure meaning to just odd meaning, making them sort of nonsensical. It's easier now to see the care that these poets took to choose words and set them into complex sentence structures in order to make their meaning reverberate. Imagining the poem's speaking talking to a "little dog" doesn't have the same emotional impact as imagining him addressing the sun. Donne's language suggests the sun is sad that its realm of influence (the world that it warms) is shrinking as it ages. But the speaker also seems to be appreciating the sun's rays and welcoming them, as if to console the sun for feeling old by pointing out its ongoing use to people on Earth.

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