1. Define the meter of “Provide, Provide” and comment on why Frost might have chosen such a jingly rhythmical pattern.
2. What are the most important symbolic associations of the color green in Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”?
3. Identify the metaphors and the similes in Earle Birney’s poem ...
1. Define the meter of “Provide, Provide” and comment on why Frost might have chosen
such a jingly rhythmical pattern.
- The poem “Provide, Provide” by Robert frost follows a motivational tone. The meter
used for this poem is iambic tetrameter. For example, “To wash the steps with pail and
rag”. The bolded words in this verse are stressed syllables and the others are unstressed.
Frost has used the end rhyme pattern and the rhyme scheme is AAA, BBB, CCC etc.
Different stanzas have different rhyming sounds. The poet might have used this pattern
so that the poem does not sounds monotonous and to make it more interesting.
(Geddes,56)
2. What are the most important symbolic associations of the color green in Dylan Thomas’s
“Fern Hill”?
- Dylan Thomas has used the word “green” a lot of times in this poem it has different
meanings from the beginning and to the end of the poem. In the first two stanzas, when the
poet uses green color, it represents the full of happiness and carefree life. The author
referred himself as “green” and “happy as the grass was green” which clearly shows the
cheerfulness of the poet. In the third stanza, the poet compares fire with the green grass and
gives the reader an idea that all the things that he allures, and his happiness is fading away.
The green color has completely a different connotation in the last stanza as it was in the
beginning. Now, the speaker compares green color with death as “Time held me green and
dying” which means that his happiness has gone with the time. (Geddes,172)
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