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Finding similarities and recognizing differences can help you understand
your reaction to different persons and information you listened to.
Work in small groups of 4.
Recall another poem you explored in class and you found interesting.
Compare it with A Psalm of Life by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Choose the basic categories such as: subject, the mood/tone, and
viewpoint on general truth in life.
Compare the specific points that are similar enough to enable you to draw
effective comparison.
Plot your answers in the chart as shown.
Title of the poem
Poem # 1 Poem # 2
Subject
The mood / tone
DRAFT
On Using QUOTATION MARKS
Theme or general truth
observed in life
Task 12
A.
Remember that even in poems, especially in dramatic or narrative
poems, quotation marks (“ “ ) are used to enclose the exact words of
the speaker/ persona, character. Consider these lines from the
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poems
1.
They say, “ Time assuages.”
from :” Verse 13” by Emily Dickinson.
2.
He met a pilgrim shadow-
“ Shadow,” said he,
“where it can be-
This land of Eldorado?”
from: “ EL DORADO” by Edgar Allan Poe
With three or four of your classmates, discuss your answer to the following
questions.
How are the quotation marks used in verse No. 1? In verse no. 2?
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