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Explain the phrase.
his bending sickle's compass
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Explain the phrase.
Time's fool
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What does the bird in the poem announce? How is this related to the title, ‘Coming’?
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What, according to Ruskin, are the limitations of the good book of the hour?
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What are the criteria that Ruskin feels that readers should fulfil to make themselves fit for the company of the Dead?
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Why does Ruskin feel that reading the work of a good author is a painstaking task?
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Why is the speaker’s childhood described as ‘a forgotten boredom’?
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What causes the element of surprise when the child comes on the scene of 'adult reconciling'?
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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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