SHORT QUESTIONS EEG 6

SHORT QUESTIONS

EEG VI

Explain: That moment she was mine, mine , fair, perfectly pure and good…

Yes! The repetition of the word "mine" in "Mine, mine fair" is significant. In repeating the word, the persona reflects backward (to "that moments he was mine") and forward (to "mine fair, / perfectly pure and good"). The backward reflection suggests his desire for ownership while the forward "mine" suggests a desire to possess a state of being (her fair, good, pure). By repeating the word, he tells us that it's not all about having her, but that it's also about preserving her perfect state—that moment of pure love for him.

That's the crux of his problem—he knows she loves him; it's just not enough.

He has told us already that although she loves him, she is not sufficiently committed to him. She wavers. He says she is too weak to follow her passion and to give herself to him forever (21-25). When he says she is "mine, mine fair", he is saying that he possesses her heart in its most perfect state. Were he to let her live, he would have her body sometimes, and her heart, sometimes, but not always.

Here's where the second aspect of the repetition of the word mine comes in. The repetition also serves to make him appear somewhat child-like, greedy and immature, someone who won't share, who wants the perfect doll still in its box. He wants something that is his alone, something that no one else can have, something that she, were she to live, could never be.

How does the poet relate his mood to the sea’s movement in Break, Break, Break?

Break, Break, Break is an elegy by Alfred Lord Tennyson on the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. The author imagines to be standing near the cliff on the seashore and addressing to the sea waves which are lashing the rocks repeatedly. The poet finds an analogy and expresses it implicitly. He wishes that the ‘waves’ of his grief would break the inarticulateness (inability to speak out) in his heart, so that he also expresses his grief easily. The speaker emotionally commands the sea to “break”. He wants the sea waves to break on the cliffs; but it is also possible to interpret the lines as demanding to ‘break’ the cold gray stones of the cliff. The ‘cold gray stones’ are symbolic of the hardened heart of his inexpressible grief.

Locate and annotate:  Why did you die when the lambs were cropping?

This is the final highlight of the poem “A Dirge” by Christina Rossetti and this is worthy of discussion in the sense that it shows that the poem’s overall tone is not one of anger or resentment at the passing of the subject. Instead, Rossetti replaces any potential anger with a feeling of an almost passivity. This is clearly demonstrated in this line which the narrator asks “why did you die when the lambs were cropping?” which was immediately followed with “you should have died at the apples’ dropping”. The narrator almost seems to view the death as an inconvenience and actually offers a better time in which the death would have suited herself. This seems like an impossibly self centered view of the death of another human being. No place else in the poem does the narrator even express a sense of overt distress. This paints a picture of a narrator, and really a loved one, who has potentially reached the end of a long road of grieving the loss of a loved one. But what is important to realize about this apparent near apathetic view of death is that it is not without a sense of love for the memory of the departed. The narrator backs up this claim through the final line describing the dearly departed as a “sweet thing[s] dying” (Rossetti). There is a bittersweet quality to this ending, as even through what would be implied as a difficult grieving process, the narrator still remembers what is ultimately important–the love toward this individual.

Write a Short note on Women’s Suffrage Movement

The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when a women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls meeting was not the first in support of women’s rights, but suffragists later viewed it as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. Under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women’s rights pioneers, suffragists circulated petitions and lobbied Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women.

At the turn of the century, women reformers in the club movement and in the settlement house movement wanted to pass reform legislation. However, many politicians were unwilling to listen to a disenfranchised group. Thus, over time women began to realize that in order to achieve reform, they needed to win the right to vote. For these reasons, at the turn of the century, the woman suffrage movement became a mass movement......................

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