Narrative and Lyric Poems (Second Series) for Use in the Lower School
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (Second Series) for Use in the Lower School
English poetry
_Narrative and Lyric Poems._
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea; “As Ships, Becalm’d—”; The Chambered
Nautilus; “You Ask me, Why—”; Enid’s song, “Turn, Fortune, turn thy
Wheel”—four stanzas; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Parts
VII and VIII; The Traveller, ll. 63-98, “But where to find. . . peculiar
pain” and ll. 423-438, “Vain, very vain. . . all our own.”
_The Merchant of Venice._
Act I, Sc. 1, ll. 79-99. _Gratiano_: Let me play . . . their brothers
fools.
Act I, Sc. 2, ll. 13-22. _Portia_: If to do . . . the cripple.
Act II, Sc. 9, ll. 21-49. _Arragon_: Who chooseth me . . .
new-varnished.
Act IV, Sc. 1, ll. 184-202. _Portia_: The quality of mercy . . . deeds
of mercy.
Act V, Sc. 1, ll. 54-65. _Lorenzo_: How sweet . . . cannot hear it.
Act V, Sc. 1, ll. 83-88. _Lorenzo_: The man that hath no music . . .
trusted.
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=NOTES.=
ENOCH ARDEN.
Published in 1864.
2. Evidently a stream comes down through the chasm and the wide mouth of
the stream forms a harbour. See line 690.
3. =Beyond.= At one side of the harbour.
=red roofs.= Roofs covered with red tile.
6. =down.= A bare sandy hill.
7. =Danish barrows.= Burial mounds supposed to date back to the time of
the Danes.
16. =lumber.= Waste material; clumsy, useless articles.
17. =swarthy.= Black or brown in colour.
18. =fluke.= The hook or wing of the anchor.
25-6. A suggestion of what is to take place later in the lives of these
three.
38. The stronger passions of youth.
63. =great and small.= Old and young.
67. =prone.= Sloping down precipitously.
68. =To feather.= The wood was denser in the hollow (see line 444), than
along the upper edges of the slope.
84-8. Enoch Arden was “a rough sailor lad” without education; and
Tennyson throughout the poem tries to soften down the prosaic features
of his life and to picture him as a man with nobler impulses and
resolves.
92-100. An effort to dress up in more attractive form the prosaic fact
that Enoch made his living by peddling fish.
93. =ocean-spoil.= Fish.
94. =ocean-smelling osier.= Willow baskets having an odour of the sea.
96. =market-cross.= In old days crosses were frequently erected in
market places.
98. =portal-warding lion-whelp.= The carved figure of a lion placed over
the gateway as if to guard the entrance.
99. =peacock-yewtree.= A yewtree trimmed in the form of a peacock. The
yewtree is an evergreen.
100. Enoch provided the fish which were used on Friday.
110. He had competition in his trade.
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