ENGL 100 Lecture 11: engish week 11
26 Oct 2016
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First stanza = description of the eagle from a distance (outside, the exterior) Personification with the crooked hands (suggests age & wisdom) Second two lines --> eagle stands at the center of existence (between the speaker and the sun), the figure is anchoring the landscape (importance of the figure) Second stanza = world from the perspective of the eagle (shift) Landscape is personified (wrinkles on the surface of the water) Idea of crawling = sense of great age (matching the eagle) who watches from his mountain walls. Simile = compares his motions (energy, power, speed that exceeds the human eye to follow it) Line: sequence of words printed as separate entity on the page. Couplet: a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length (count syllables) Heroic couplet: lines of iambic pentameter which rhyme in pairs. Tercet / triplet: stanza of three lines, usually with a single rhyme. Ballad stanza: four-line stanza with alternate rhyme a b c b.
