The title of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream has both literary and social significance. The title tells the audience right away that the play is going to deal in some way with a sort of dream on a summer night.
Henry Wadsworth is using a poetic technique called enjambment in this excerpt. Enjambment means that you continue your thoughts from one line into the following one, or from one stanza into the next one.
One of the thems
because they don't make any sense
A practice where native americans retrieved and ate the larvae from hornets nest. <span />