Quiz 15 Flashcards
ancient Greek goddess of dawn
Aurora
ancient Greek hero of Pythagorean legend
Damon
decaying; decomposing
mouldering
the location of the deserted village
Auburn
a poem or work that celebrates the joys of simple rural life; often features an idyllic world of nature, bucolic landscapes, and a shepherd addressing a shepherdess, whom he loves
pastoral
the artist to whom the poem is addressed
Scipio Moorehead
a rustic; a peasant
swain
a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular person or subject, usually praising it
ode
a pleasant shady place under tress or climbing plants
bower
to make joyous; to fill with high spirits
elate
the village as described in the first section of “The Deserted Village”
- “Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease … /*
- Where humble happiness endeared each scene!”*
an instance of antithesis
“The young contending as the old surveyed”
signals the first major shift in “The Deserted Village”
“These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, / With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; / These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed; / These were thy charms - but all these charms are fled.”
diction that reveals the speaker’s perspective in the second section of “The Deserted Village”
“tyrant’s hand”; “Desolation saddens”; “choked”; “tires their echoes”; “shapeless ruin”; and “spoiler’s hand”
imagery that conveys the speaker’s perspective in the second section of “the Deserted Village”
- “Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,*
- And the long grass o’ertops the*
- mouldering wall”*
