ED-Publication

Question 1

Publication –is the Auction Of the Mind of Man –

Initiates definition
Connotations
Internal rhyme
plosive /k/

Answer 1

→L 1/2 initiate definition as well as juxtaposition btw. commerc. + spirit.
→‘P’tion’ = ‘auction’ of ‘mind of man’ (ie: sells off intangible & sacred human imagination)
→connot. slave auctions (assoc. ↓freedom) –this connex int. rhyme: ‘tion’
→plosive /k/ = p’tion = harsh, unforgiving, barbaric, accentuated by trochaic rhythm.

Question 2

Poverty -be justifying’ + ‘so foul’+ ‘possibly’

Connotations
enjambment

Answer 2

→p’tion = spirit. pollution (connot. ‘foul’), only ‘justified’ by material deprivation (‘poverty’)
→enj onto qualifier ‘possibly’ →even poverty no excuse, all should be martyrs to artistic + spirit. freedom

Question 3

–but We –would rather From Our Garret go White –(unto the white creator / than invest / our snow)

Imagery of whiteness
enjambment

Answer 3

→imagery whiteness (white, snow) →sp. rather die than sacrifice purity b4 God (‘white creator’) by publishing
→Enj’ntL5,6,7: sp’s view = uninterrupted rush of conviction

Question 4

‘Thought belong to Him who gave it’

Simple diction

Answer 4

→As in Slant, where God ‘gives’ thoughts + feelings (using N as kind of conduit) God = source of poetic insp. ∴poet not at liberty to sell it thru p’tion

Question 5

‘corporeal illustration’ + ‘sell the royal air.’

connotations

Answer 5

→Tone becomes v. excoriating

→converting words to saleable ‘parcel’ = unforgivable betrayal of God

Question 6

‘But reduce no Human Spirit To Disgrace of Price –‘

Poem of definition ends w. command
sibilance

Answer 6

→No human spirit should pollute themselves to ‘disgrace of price’
→Sibilance accent. malice of prospect of p’tion/ final line almost hisses in the ear, like a serpentine temptation that must be resisted.