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English
12th Grade
05/18/2014

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"Waiting for a hand"
Definition
Friendship
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"Like a guilty thing I creep at earliest mornin to the door"
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Uncertainty/hesitation because he knows his friend is not there
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"On the bald streets break the blank day"
Definition
The world is insensitive to the death of the speaker's friend
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"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
Definition
Loving means truly bein human
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"O, yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of evil"
Definition
even though something seems bad, the final goal is to move forward; humans cannot know, only trust
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"That not a worm is cloven in vain, that not a moth is with vain desire is shriveled in a fruitless fire, or but subserves another's gain"
Definition
Even trivial things can sometimes be very purposeful
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"An infant crying in the night, an infant crying for the light, and with no language but to cry"
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Experience wields optimism that things will get better, compared to a naive infant.
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"Ring out the grief that saps the mind"
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Rid the mind of grief that saps the mind of power
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"Ring out, ring out, my mournful rhymes"
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He wants to rid his poetry of sadness, wants to write about happier things
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"Thy voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee when the waters run, thou standest in the rising sun, and in the setting thou art fair."
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Hallam is one with the universe; though he's a part of nature doesn't mean tennyson loves him less
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"though mixed with god and nature thou, i seem to love thee more and more"
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Tennyson loves the Spiritual hallam more and understands that he is in a better place now.
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"I shall not lose thee though I die"
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paradox
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First stanza information- crossing the bar
Definition
Two controlling metaphors: the sea and crossing the bar. The auditory image (pathetic fallacy)- moaning of the bar. stands for gut wrenching pain; pain of friends and family. he does not want his family to be sad.
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Second stanza information- crossing the bar
Definition
long and short lines to reflect the waves; soothing and calming.

heaven is his home
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third stanza- crossing the bar
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wants no sadness for his death
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fourth stanza- crossing the bar
Definition
hopes to see his pilot before he dies
pilot is god
going to his home
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who is the lady?
Definition
an artist
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what is the weaving?
Definition
the artist's work
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what is the tower?
Definition
creative boundaries
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what is the mirror?
Definition
indirect view of life in order to work
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what is lancelot?
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distractions and temptations
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author of from midnights children
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salman rushdie
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author of dead men's path
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chinua achebe
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author of the verger
Definition
somerset maugham
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author of open window
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Saki (Hector Munro)
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author of the rocking horse winner
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D.H. Lawrence
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author of shooting an elephant
Definition
george orwell
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