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Question
Colour, sound, and images from nature add to the beauty of a poem: 'Tartary' is a perfect example of the above. Pick outlines that contain –
- Colour
- Sound
- Images from nature
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Solution
- Colour:
- her rivers silver pale!
- In every purple vale!
- And in the evening lamp would shine. Yellow as honey, red as wine
- I'd wear a robe of beads & gold
- Sound:
- Trumpeters every day 59 To every meal would summon me. (Assuming and interpreting that elephants are trumpeters in the poem.)
- While harp and flute and mandoline made music sweet and gay.
- Images from the nature:
- Her flashing stars, her scented breeze.
- Her river silver pale!
- And in my pools great fishes slant.
- Her bird-delighting citron trees.
- Glen, thicket, wood, and dale.
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