This poem shows that even when empires fall, God remains. This stanza especially, shows this relationship:
"The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!"
It shows that a war has ended (the shouting has died) and that the empire has left (the captain and the Kings depart) but that God is still present (Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice etc). We know he is referring to God here, because "Thine" is with a capital T which represents something holy.
From the excerpt of "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, the line "...on the French coast, the light/Gleams and is gone..." obviously symbolizes the impermanence of life. The light on the French coast is like an opportunity presented to us, once. We must be ready once this opportunity comes.
Faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are roughly equivalent in meaning but not parallel (or grammatically similar) in form. Faulty parallelism most often occurs with paired constructions and items in a series.
The meaning of the word “team” used in the poem means: <u>B. a team of horses
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A.E. Housman uses the line "Is My Team Ploughing" in his poem. In this line, the term means a team of horses.
A. E. Housman was an English poet and classical scholar. He was known for his famous poem <u>A Shropshire Lad</u>. It was published in the year 1896 and became famous during his lifetime. The poem of Housman was highly popular.
The line comes as below:
‘Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?’
