Answer:
1. An image.
2. Richard Tottle.
3. Concrete.
4. Sonnet.
5. Sir Philip Sidney.
6. Edmund Spencer.
7. Archaic.
8. The Dark Lady.
9. Sir Frances Bacon.
Explanation:
1. An image: a word picture. It is graphical representation or illustration of something such as people, place, animal, plants, etc.
2. Richard Tottle: responsible for the first collection of songs and lyrics in England. He was an English publisher who had a shop at Temple bar in London, United Kingdom.
3. Concrete: something that can be perceived by the senses. It simply a things that is capable of being acknowledged by any of the five sense organs such as eyes, nose, tongue, etc.
4. Sonnet: means little song in Italian. It comprises of 14 lines with five-foot iambics.
5. Sir Philip Sidney: wrote Italian sonnet
6. Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queen.
7. Archaic: belonging to an earlier period, outdated.
8. The Dark Lady: subject of Shakespeare's sonnets
9. Sir Frances Bacon: famous writer of interludes.
Answer:
1. The speaker is in a contemplative mood.
2. The word 'turn' in this context means being born into the fold of animals instead of humans. It is a sort of reincarnation.
3. The speaker wishes to live with animals because they are calm, not easily upset, and contented.
4. Alliteration was employed in the words- long and long.
Explanation:
1. The poet Walt Whitman was likely contemplating or thinking to himself of all the attributes of animals which made them pleasing to him.
2. As a human, if he was to turn and live with animals, that would mean no longer being born as a human but rather being born into the fold of animals.
3. The speaker wishes to live with the animals because they are 'placid and self contain'd' which means that they are calm and not easily upset. They are also contented and do not drag each other for worldly possessions.
4. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letters or sounds of a string of words in a phrase. The letter repeated by the speaker is 'l'.
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I think the correct answer from the choices listed is option C. The element of modernist poetry that is evident in this excerpt from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes is that the poem’s stanzas have varying lengths. This poem is Langston Hughes's first mature poem and the most anthologized poem.
