Verbs(all verbs, not just lexical verbs, that is the ones carrying meaning): was, sitting, had, seen, given, looked, could be, came, said, make up, got. Notice some of the verbs are repeated, you should underline every time they appear. Remember that there is as many verbs as there are clauses or sentences. Also if you identify a subject of each clause, the verb is the one that follows, since it states the action or state.
Adjectives( words used to describe people, objects or situations): old, familiar, frog-like, tortoise-like, huntched-up (these last three are phrases rather than adjectives, but in the passage they are functioning as adjectives), pale, shrewd.
Abstract nouns( they refer to concepts, diferent from concrete nouns which refer to things, people and animals): attitude, law, power, convictions.
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Lamplighters started to vanish from Victorian city streets as electricity became available. When cities gained electricity, the role of lighting the roads became more dependant on an unseen person at the electric company flicking a switch, rather than a team of men individually lighting each street lamp.
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Paine uses the words "madness and folly" to emphasize that the colonists are unwise in attempting to achieve a positive relationship with Britain.
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It distorts the traditional concept of a love song.
It emphasizes the search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world.
Explanation:
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an extremely sentimental and striking poem, besides being melancholy and sad, causing great reflections in the reader, about what it is to be loved, what it is to have hope and what it is to feel empty and alone.
The poem features a speaker who longs to establish a romantic affair with someone, but has all his attempts unsuccessful. This speaker does not want to abandon this desire, but his hopes are completely empty, making him feel melancholy and try desperately to seek some connection, some meaning in the world that is as empty as he is. This destabilizes the concept of a love song as something happy and comfortable, as the poem shows a visceral and uncomfortable version of a love song in the life of someone hopeless about love, but very much wants to feel it.
