Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I need help with this poem?

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; [5]

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; [10]

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.



Lines 5-6 contain examples of?

hyperbole

metonymy

personification

analogy

symbolism



Line 7 contains an example of?

analogy

metaphor

symbolism

allegory

simile



Which of the following best describes the meter of the poem?

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Pentameter

Dactyllic Tetrameter

Trochaic Hexameter

I need help with this poem?
Line 5-6 contain examples of personification. Wordsworth is giving the Sea and the winds human-like qualities. Line 7 contains an example of simile. The wind is compared to "sleeping flowers" using "like." This is obviously a sonnet--more specifically, an Italian sonnet--so the meter must be iambic pentameter.

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