Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning Flashcards
1
Q
poems to compare
A
- Adlestrop
- Stewart Island
- London
2
Q
context
A
- Romantic poet
- lover of nature and the natural world
- homesickness of England, because he moved to Italy and unable to move back
3
Q
present tense
A
the voice imagines they are reliving these experiences in a live fashion - adds to exhilaration
4
Q
Homesickness
A
‘Oh, to be in England, Now that April’s there’
- longing tone created
5
Q
‘In England - now!’
A
- exclamatory sentence
- showing how all of these beautiful things happen quickly and at once in England in April
6
Q
‘And after the April, when May follows, and the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!’
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- polysyndeton
- repetition of and in a list
- enthusiasm and national pride
7
Q
‘Hark’
A
- auditory imagery
- so we can hear the delightful English springtime
8
Q
‘rapture!’
A
- religious language
- feeling of intense pleasure to heaven
