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To Sandra:
 
To Sandra:
 
tils the shore = proverbial: to undertake a laborious task in vain
 
tils the shore = proverbial: to undertake a laborious task in vain
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Is it possible to use the "heart" for more than one figures of speech or is it better to choose other examples?!
 
(Have a look at the bottom of the assignment) ;)
 
(Have a look at the bottom of the assignment) ;)
  

Revision as of 15:08, 9 November 2009

Please, feel free to ask (and answer) questions concerning the poetry assignment on this page. Best, Anna Auguscik 15:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Does anybody know who is addressed in line 12? (Does he mean the addressee or does the speaker mean himself?) And how are we supposed to write the metre and the rhyme-scheme down? Maybe like in the handout that was given to us- in three steps? Greetings, Milena


I would say that the speaker means the addressee/the woman in line 11 and 12. What are "figures of speech" (task 2b) - only the tropes (metaphor,metonymy,...) or also alliteration and parallelism? Greetings, Lena

I also have problems with line 12...how can I translate "tils the shore"?! I can´t find the word 'til' anywhere...I also have troubles finding the main conclusion of the second paragraph, especially the first two lines of it. Who is adressed in the second paragraph, is it himself or someone else? What has been enacted? who was too passionate? he or someone else? so many questions...I hope someone can help me, greetings sandra

To Lena: I think figures of speech are metonymy, synecdoche, allegory and symbols...you can look them up on the figurative speech handout

To Sandra: tils the shore = proverbial: to undertake a laborious task in vain

Is it possible to use the "heart" for more than one figures of speech or is it better to choose other examples?! (Have a look at the bottom of the assignment) ;)

stupid me;-) nevertheless...thanks


First I also thought that figures of speech are only tropes but then I found a handout on the wiki page which was called "figures or speech" and there were also the syntactic figures written down... confusing;) Greetings, Lena

Does anyone know up to when (exactly) we have to hand in our assignments?!