Introduction to Literature

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1. “In a summer season, when soft was the sun…”(William Langland)

A song I sing of sorrow unceasing (“The Wife’s Lament”)

 Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white. (S.T. Coleridge)

2. An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king, – (P.B. Shelley)

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impair'd the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face; (Byron)

3. I want a hero: an uncommon want,

When every year and month sends forth a new one,

Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,

The age discovers he is not the true one;

Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,

I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan,

We all have seen him, in the pantomime,

Sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time. (Byron)

Which of the following word pairs form consonance? Explain.

  stone – one

bough – allow

plane – gain

weak – creep

4. I know that I shall meet my fate

Somewhere among the clouds above;

Those that I fight I do not hate,

Those that I guard I do not love (W. B. Yeats)

I met a little cottage girl,

She was eight years old, she said;

Her hair was thick with many a curl

That cluster’d round her head. (William Wordsworth)

When we two parted

In silence and tears,

Half broken-hearted

To sever for years (Byron)

5. All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are; (Shakespeare)

But! "If this be error and upon me proved/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved." (also Shakespeare)

6. The Child is father of the Man;+
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. (William Wordsworth)

Rhyme schemes

1. Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright

In the forests of the night (William Blake)

2. The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,

Each like a corpse within its grave, until

Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill

Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air

With living hues and odours plain and hill: (Shelley)

Metrical feet

	The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Thomas Gray) And the raven, never quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting… (E. A. Poe) Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat – (Robert Browning)
	The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. (Byron)
	Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur. (Wordsworth)