2. Preciation Questions from Poetry

A Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words – Snake – The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning – Sonnet No.116 - The Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain - Laugh and Be Merry – Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your
- Nose is on your face - A sonnet for my Incomparable Mother - The Flying Wondr - To a Millionaire - The Piano – Manliness - Going for water - The cry of the Children - Migrant Bird - Shilpi.

Example:

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

rust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, — act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alliteration

SENTENCE
Tell me not, in mournfulnumbers	m
Tell me not, in mournful numbers	n
For the soul is dead that slumbers	s
And the grave is not its goal	g
Was not spoken of the soul	s
But to act, that each to-morrow	t
Find us farther than to-day	f
In the world’s broad field of battle	b
Be not like dumb, drivencattle	d
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main	s
With a heart for any fate;	f
Learn to labor and to wait	l

Allusion

SENTENCE
Dust thou art, to dust returnest	Biblical
Let the dead Past bury its dead	Biblical

Simile

SENTENCE

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Be not like dumb, driven cattle

Metaphor

SENTENCE

Life is but an empty dream

In the bivouac of Life

Footprints on the sands of time

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main

Personification

SENTENCE

For the soul is dead that slumbers

And our hearts, though stout and brave

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

A forlorn and ship wrecked brother

Oxymoron

SENTENCE

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow

Anaphora

SENTENCE

Life is real! Life is earnest

Dust thou art, to dust returnest

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow

Let the dead Past bury its dead

Repetition

SENTENCE

Act,—act in the living Present

Still achieving, still pursuing

Rhyme Scheme: ab ab.

Rhyming words:

Numbers, Slumbers – dream, seem – earnest, returnest – goal, soul – sorrow, tomorrow – way, today – fleeting, beating – brave, grave – battle, cattle – life, strife – pleasant, present – dead, overhead  – remind us, behind us – sublime, time –  another, brother – main, again – doing, pursuing  – fate, wait.

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