EN 206
Problem Set #3
1.What is the verse form of “Tintern Abbey,” “The Eolian Harp,” “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” and “Frost at Midnight”? -Blank Verse 2.In “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth feels “a sense sublime / Of something far more deeply interfused” (95-96). Define “interfused.” -Interfused means blended together the poet is using the
word interfused to express his understanding and spiritual relationship with nature
3.The second stanza of “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” contains one metaphor and one simile. The first compares Lucy to a violet, the second compares her to a star. What are some of the differences between a violet and a star? What is the effect of moving from one figure to the next? -
The effect of moving from one figure to the next in the poem is to emphasize different aspects of Lucy's character and presence.
4.What is enjambment? (You can look it up in the back of the Norton, p.A16.) Give an example from the reading for this week. - Enjambment occurs when a sentence or clause flows seamlessly
into the following line or stanza. Wordsworth's "A violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from the eye!” "She dwelt among the untrodden ways."
5.Coleridge uses the word “eve” twice in “The Eolian Harp.” Where does he place the word in the line? -
the word "eve" is used twice, and it is placed at the end of lines.
