THL1502 Assignment 2 (ANSWERS) Semester 1 2024 Answers, guidelines, workings and references .................................................... Read the following poem and answer the questions below: A Dream Within A Dream By Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream: Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep While I weep while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? QUESTION1: METAPHOR [10] 1 What is the most widely used figure of speech in poetry and what is its specific characteristic? (2) 2. Which specific metaphorical construction is “the pitiless wave” in line 23? Mention and briefly describe the different constituent parts. (2) 3. Name the other three metaphorical constructions found in poetry and give examples of each (the examples do not have to be from the poem printed above). (3) 4. Identify another example of a metaphorical construction in the second stanza. (1) 5. Give an example of another figure of speech from the poem above that is not a metaphor. (2) QUESTION2: SOUND [10] 1. What are we referring to when we refer to “the poetic use of language”? (1) 2. Why do we study sound in a poem? Explain briefly. (1) 3. What four aspects do we need to distinguish in order to study a poem as a vehicle for communicating meaning in a poem? (2) 4. Distinguish between vertical and horizontal sound patterns and provide one example of each from the poem above. (2) 5. What is the distinguishing characteristic of end rhyme? Explain with reference to two appropriate examples from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. (2) 6. Identify by means of the following examples different patterns of sound repetition in the poem above (remember to underline the consonants and vowels in question): (2) 6.1Assonance: 6.2Alliterartion: . QUESTION 3: SYNTAX [10] 1. Briefly explain your understanding of the term, “syntax”. (1) 2. To create poetry of quality, the poet purposely needs to apply three techniques. Name all three. (3) 3. What is the function of syntactic deviations in poetic language? (1) 4. Briefly explain what “extra patterning” in a poem is and give one example from the poem? (2) 5. Briefly explain three other techniques, also known as syntactic deviation, which can be used within the poetic sentence. (3) OR QUESTION 4: RHYTHM AND METRE [10] 1. How would you explain to a someone who never reads poetry what rhythm and metre are? (2) 2. Name six types of metrical patterning found in poetry. (2) 3. Name the metrical pattern which occurs prominently in poetry. (1) 4. Write down the signs referring to prominent and unstressed syllables in a poem. (1) 5. Explain in your own words why you think that rhythm and metre are core components of “A Dream Within A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe. (2) 6. Scan the following lines from the second stanza of Poe’s poem: “I stand amid the roar / Of a surf-tormented shore” (lines 12-13). Which metrical pattern occurs in these lines? Is this metrical pattern followed throughout the poem? (2)
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