The Wind Began To Rock The Grass

Question 1

Structure

Answer 1

Half rhyme: similar sounds
Dashes: enhance readability and replaces other punc. =ongoing action
Metre: v ‘ (unstressed then stressed ) Iambic tetrameter (8 syll 4ft) -> Iambic Trimeter: melodic and meditative

Question 2

Stanza 1

Answer 2

Begun: past participle of begin still happening till this point (needs helping word), uses it as if it was began which doesn’t have finite verb=unsettling from the start

Rock: connotation-gentle to be undermined by “Threatening tunes”= sound of the winds blowing

Personification of the storm: has intent

Diction: menace- danger to society, repetition. All of existence is threatened by the storm

Question 3

Stanza 2

Answer 3

Personification: leaves unhooked themselves, nature has intent and acts on its own will, dust scooping itself
Dash:
Diction: abroad- covers beyond borders - nature is huge
Punctuation: ; introduces similar idea but develops initial statement
Simile, personification: threw away-violent

Question 4

Stanza 3:

Answer 4

Wagons quickened on the streets: personification or synecdoche
Oxymoron: hurried slow= seems illogical at first. thunder makes sudden boom followed by rumbles
Anthropomorphism= metaphor. lightning process to hunting of bird. Damage
Diction: livid (aggressive tone= battered) sense of term

Question 5

Stanza 4

Answer 5

Atmosphere of panic: animals are creatures which are familiar with movements of nature
Bar: reinforce the nest
Alliteration of b: banging base sound= menacing

Enjambement: ongoing- from one giant drop to intense rain “the waters wrecked the sky”

Question 6

Stanza 5

Answer 6

Dickinson’s own voice comes through as she says’s “my fathers house” its a place of refuge. And the poems ends with “just quartering a tree” it was capable if more destruction a near miss of her home.
Quartering torture method