What key to the situation in the first line? Who are the speaker and the one addressed? What mood and feeling are in control? Comment upon the condensation of the thought and the movement of the verse. A PRETTY WOMAN. (PAGE 55.) 25-27. Compare Emerson's lines in _The Rhodora:_-- "If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." To what things is the "Pretty Woman" compared? Of what use is she? How is she to be judged? YOUTH AND ART. (PAGE 58.) 8. =Gibson, John= (1790-1866). A famous sculptor. 12. =Grisi, Giulia=. A celebrated singer (1811-1869). 18. In allusion to the asceticism of the Hindoo religious devotees. 58. =bals-pares=. Fancy-dress balls. The poem is half-humorous, half-serious. The speaker, in her imaginary conversation, gives her own history and that of the man she thinks she might have loved. The story is on the "Maud Muller" motive, but with less of sentimentality. The setting suggests the life of art students in Paris, or in some Italian city. The poem is a plea for the freedom of the individuality of a soul against the restrictions imposed by conventional standards of value. Its touches of humor, of human nature, and its summary of two lives in brief, are admirably done. Its rhymes sometimes need the indulgence accorded to humorous writing. A TALE. (PAGE 61.) The source of the story is an epigram given in Mackail's _Select Epigrams from Greek Anthology_. It is one of the happiest pieces of Browning's lighter work. 65. =Lotte=, or Charlotte. A character in Goethe's _Sorrows of Werther_, said to be drawn from the heroine of one of Goethe's earlier love-affairs. Who are the speaker and the one addressed? Whom does the cicada of the tale symbolize? Whom the singer helped by the cicada? What application is made of the story? What serious meanings and feelings underlie the tone of raillery? What things mark the light and humorous tone of the speaker? Point out the harmony between style and theme. CAVALIER TUNES. (PAGE 67.) Note the swinging, martial movement, and the energetic spirit in these lyrics. For an account of the history of the period, see Green's _Short History of the English People_, Chapter VIII, and Macaulay's _History of England_, Chapter I. For an account of the qualities of the Cavaliers, see Macaulay's _Essay on Milton_. I. MARCHING ALONG 1. =Kentish Sir Byng=. The first of the family known to fame was George Byng, Viscount Torrington (1663-1733), who could not be the man meant here by Browning. 2. =crop-headed=. In allusion to the close-cropped hair of the Puritans. Long wigs were the fashion among the Cavaliers; hence the Puritans were nicknamed "Roundheads." 7. =King Charles= the First. =Pym=, John (1584-1643). Leader of the Parliament in its actions against King Charles and the Royalist party. 13. =Hampden=, John (1594-1643). One of the leaders of Parliament, known principally for his resistance to the illegal taxations of Charles I.