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What is the emphasis placed by Ruskin on accuracy?
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What two things are compared in the poem?
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How do you respond to these lines?
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses
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Discuss in pairs
Ruskin's insistence on looking intensely at words, and assuring oneself of meaning, syllable by syllable – nay, letter by letter.
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Comment on the use of the phrase ‘fresh-peeled voice’.
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Discuss in pairs
Choice of diction is very crucial to the communication of meaning.
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The text is an excerpt from Sesame and Lilies which consists of two essays, primarily, written for delivery as public lectures in 1864. Identify the features that fit the speech mode. Notice the sentence patterns.
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Notice these expressions in the poem and guess their meaning from the context:
| rancid breath | squelching tar |
| spectroscopic flight of fancy | |
| rearing on the thunderclap | brunette |
| peroxide blonde | clinical assent |
| raven black |
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The lecture was delivered in 1864. What are the shifts in style and diction that make the language different from the way it is used today?
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State the central issue in the poem.
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There are intervals of silence in the interaction between the landlady and the prospective tenant. What are the reasons for this?
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How is colour highlighted in the poem and why? List all the words in the poem that suggest colour.
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Many sentences and paragraphs in the excerpt begin with the word ‘And’. To what extent does this contribute to the rhetorical style of the lecture?
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Which are the lines in the poem that impressed you the most and why?
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You know what ‘hide-and-seek’ is. What would ‘hide-and-speak’ mean?
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Certain words in the poem are in capital letters — why?
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Why do you think that the poet has chosen the title ‘Telephone Conversation’? If you were to suggest another title for the poem, what would it be?
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The power of poetry lies in suggestion and understatement. Discuss this with reference to the poem.
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Study each of the following sentences and notice the balance between its parts. Pick out other sentences in the text that reflect this kind of balance
a. It is right that a false Latin quantity should excite a smile in the House of Commons; but it is wrong that a false English meaning should not excite a frown there.
b. Let the accent of words be watched, by all means, but let the meaning be watched more closely still, and fewer will do the work.
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Why does the poet prefer to be a primitive Pagan rather than a member of civilised society?
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