PART 3 活学活用

针对该部分学习内容的相关练习:

1.What rhetoric does Dickinson apply in the poem?

Alliteration is adopted persistently. Examples are as follows: labor and leisure, recess and ring, gazing and grain, setting and sun, dews and drew, gossamer and gown, tippet and tulle, horse and heads.

2.What does “ring” represent in the third stanza?

Here, “ring” is a pun. It refers to two meanings. One is the playground in school, and the other meaning is the circle of society.

3.In the third stanza, Dickinson applies metaphor, how does she compare the things?

Three images come together and create profound meanings. Children represent young age, while grain productive and fertile years of one’s life, setting sun old age and end of life, which works as a process to review dying memories and displays a lifelong journey one would experience.

4.What rhetoric does Dickinson apply in the last stanza?

In the last stanza, Dickinson uses paradox in “Since then -- It is Centuries -- and yet each/Feels shorter than the Day”. She thinks the day of death is very long as if it lasts or centuries. This is because on that day she has gone over the process from birth to death. And the poet also has a new understanding of love.