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The document contains a literature assignment asking the student to analyze poems by summarizing them in 1-2 sentences and answering comprehension questions. The student provides: 1) A 1-2 sentence summary of each poem analyzed, including "There is No Frigate Like a Book" by Dickinson about how books allow travel of the mind, and "Meeting at Night" by Browning about a romantic encounter. 2) Concise answers to comprehension questions about imagery, themes, and the speaker's experience in the poems. 3) A detailed analysis of the imagery in Emily Dickinson's poem "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" about a mental breakdown compared to a funeral.

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Poetry Exercise Connotation Imagery

The document contains a literature assignment asking the student to analyze poems by summarizing them in 1-2 sentences and answering comprehension questions. The student provides: 1) A 1-2 sentence summary of each poem analyzed, including "There is No Frigate Like a Book" by Dickinson about how books allow travel of the mind, and "Meeting at Night" by Browning about a romantic encounter. 2) Concise answers to comprehension questions about imagery, themes, and the speaker's experience in the poems. 3) A detailed analysis of the imagery in Emily Dickinson's poem "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" about a mental breakdown compared to a funeral.

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Name : Regina Amelia Simanjuntak

Std Numb : 204214164

Meeting 7: Poetry
Introduction to English Literature Course
Look up every difficult word you found. Paraphrase the lines when necessary until
you have a clear picture of what the poem is about and what the poem means.

Connotation & Denotation


Exercise: Read the following poem and answer the questions below it.

There is No Frigate Like a Book

There is no frigate like a book


To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take


Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
(Arp and Johnson, 2006, p. 686)

1. Give detail description of the first and second stanzas in your own words.
 first stanza:
 Line 1 & 2: in dictionary frigate means a big ship. In these lines the
author opening the poem by compares the book to a frigate and
frigate will take us place. It is means mean that books like a ship
that can take us to faraway places in an instant.
 Line 3 & 4: in dictionary coursers mean a swift horse. In these
lines the author compares the coursers to a page of prancing poetry,
mean that reading is better than taking ride with a great horse.
 Second Stanza:
 Line 5 & 6: in dictionary traverse mean journey. These lines mean
that reading is free and everyone can be able to travel without any
fear of cost and transportation when we read because when reading
a book, we travel with our imagination.
 Line 7 & 8: in dictionary frugal mean costing little and chariot
mean train. The lines mean that reading it can bring your soul or
imagination to some happiness and it is free.

2. From the description, summarize what the poem is about.


 This poem talks about how importance reading and knowledge. It is easy
for everyone to find and explore books by comparing reading to traveling.
The author uses several comparisons arguing that books are better modes
of transportation, cheaper than the actual road to traveling.

3. Why does Dickinson compare a book to frigate and coursers? What


connotations does the word have?
 Dickinson compare a book to frigate and courses because she wants to
show that the concept of the book as something that bring us places in an
instant without moving, like a ship and coursers that can takes us places
an instant when we go far away. Frigate and coursers means something to
take us places.
4. What would we miss if the word ‘lands’ is replaced by the word ‘miles’?

5. What would we miss if the word ‘frugal’ is substituted by the word ‘cheap’?

Imagery
Exercise: Read the following poem and answer the questions below it.

Poem 1
Meeting at Night
by Robert Browning

1. The gray sea and the long black land;


And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.

2. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;


Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

(Arp and Johnson, 2006, p. 701)

1. Give detail description of the first and second stanzas in your own words.
 First stanza:
In the first stanza the speaker using visual imagery and tactile imagery,
because the language reflecting place, sense of sight, sound and touch. In
first stanza the speaker described about the journey he took to reach his
lover and this encounter took at place night.
 Second stanza:
In the second stanza the speaker using tactile imagery, because the
language also reflecting sense of sight, sound and touch. In the second
stanza the speaker once again describe about emphasizes the physical
distance the speaker to reach his lover, and in the end, their romantic
reunion did go without a hitch.

2. What experience is retold in the poem?


 The first time someone falling in love.

3. What types of imagery are employed by the poet to communicate that


experience?
 Auditory imagery and organic imagery.

4. How does that imagery effectively help the readers to feel that experience?
 Because the imagery allows the reader to clearly feel and hear what is
happening in the poetry.

Poem 2

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,


by Emily Dickinson
1. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

2. And when they all were seated,


A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb –

3. And then I heard them lift a Box


And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,

4. As all the Heavens were a Bell,


And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here –

5. And then a Plank in Reason, broke,


And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then –
(Arp and Johnson, 2006, p. 705)

1. Identify the imagery employed by the poet in each stanza.


Example:
Stanza 1:
“Mourners to and fro” = kinesthetic imagery
The mourners who visited the speaker of the poem kept moving forward and
backward. Probably they keep coming and going.
“Kept treading – treading” = auditory imagery
The mourners repetitive treading connotes stomping feet, which introduces a
steady lineup of rhythmic funeral processions.
Stanza 2:
“They all were seated” = auditory imagery
This is represented about quiet moment.
“A Service, like a Drum” = auditory imagery
The sound of drum like the thread of the mourners.
“Kept beating – beating” = Organic imagery
It is represented the idea of pressure and intensity.
“My mind was going numb” = organic imagery
It is represented about physical sensation that the mourners feel when they see a
funeral.
Stanza 3:
“I heard them lift a Box” = auditory imagery
It is represented that the author heard the coffin bearer raising the coffin that
maybe contained the author.
“Creak across my Soul” = auditory imagery
The mourners carrying coffin creaked across his soul as if it were a wooden
floor.
“Boots of Lead” = visual imagery
The men with heavy boots of lead trampling over the speaker. What is being
trampled upon is the author’s soul.
“Then Space - began to toll” = auditory imagery
It is described the sound as if all space beginning.
Stanza 4:
“All the Heavens were a Bell” = auditory imagery
The sound is so loud that all heaven looks like one big bell.
“And Being, but an Ear” = visual imagery
This speaker uses to describe herself; she became the ear that listened to the
heavens bell.
“Silence” = auditory imagery
It means that the author sound lonely.
Stanza 5:
“I dropped down, and down” = organic imagery
Since the coffin is usually lowered gently into dark patch of earth, here the
speaker’s mind falls into the darkness of madness falling down and down to
more indescribable depths.
“Hit a World, at every plunge” = kinesthetic imagery
It is described that there is another world awaiting her down with each plunge
she is thrown deeper into madness until she has finished knowing.

2. In sequence, what aspects of funeral and burial are represented in the poem?
What sequence of mental events is compared to them?
 The word felt in the opening line of the poem indicates that the first
collapse can be felt physically. This amalgamation of physical sensation
and mental perception is maintained throughout the poem, by comparing
the mental breakdown to funeral.

3. By looking at stanzas 1-3, where is the speaker imaginatively located?

 In the first stanza.

4. What finally happens to the speaker?


 The last stanza of the poem is the fall of the speaker into a kind of burial.

By the end of this burial, the speaker had effectively disappeared from the

world or we can say the speaker die.

***

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