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Hungry Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Any grammar and interpretaion mistakes or oddities?

1font00Could someone please have a look at the answers for 01b00'grammar' 02b00and01b00 'interpretation' 02b00mistakes? 02br
00After spending hours, days, even weeks on them I feel they are not quite right, and don’t sparkle. I am not sure if grammar, sentence structure, flow, punctuation, mood and tense are presented in a manner that makes sense. Could someone please do the checking, and make sure that the flow of readability of the answers is correct, and the style is consistent?02br
00Here's the poem. The questions and their answers follow.02font
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01b00Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening02b02br
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00Whose woods these are I think I know.02br
00His house is in the village though;02br
00He will not see me stopping here02br
00To watch his woods fill up with snow.02br
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00My little horse must think it queer02br
00To stop without a farmhouse near02br
00Between the woods and frozen lake02br
00The darkest evening of the year.02br
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00He gives his harness bells a shake02br
00To ask if there is some mistake.02br
00The only other sound's the sweep02br
00Of easy wind and downy flake.02br
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01b00The woods are lovely, dark and deep.02br
00But I have promises to keep,02br
00And miles to go before I sleep,02br
00And miles to go before I sleep.02b
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01b01u00Stanza # 0402u02b01font00 01i00 (All the questions below are related to Stanza No. 4)02i02font01font02br
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01b00Why can’t the poet wait to enjoy the beauty of the woods?02b02br
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00He can’t wait to enjoy the beauty of the woods because he too many responsibilities to fulfill, and has a long distance to travel before he can rest for the night. 02br
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01b00Why does he repeat the third line?02b02br
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00He repeats the third line to make a strong claim to be the most celebrated instance of repetition in English poetry. The first "And miles to go before I sleep" stays within the boundaries of literalness set forth by the rest of the poem. We may suspect, as we have up to this point, that the poem implies more than it says outright, but we can't insist on it; the poem has gone by so fast, and seemed so straightforward. Then comes the second "And miles to go before I sleep," like a soft yet penetrating gong; it can be neither ignored nor forgotten. The sound it makes is "Ahhh." And we must read the verses again and again and offer trenchant remarks and explain the "Ahhh" in words far inferior to the poem. For the last "miles to go" now seems like life; the last "sleep" now seems like death.01b02b02br
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01b00Which letters have been repeated in the last stanza?02b02br
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00The letters o and e have been repeated in the last stanza.02br
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01b00Why have they been repeated?00 02b02br
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00They have been repeated to produce a profound impression.02br
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02. "02b 00 doesn't work. He doubts that this why the poet did it.

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02. Someone has told me01b00 "He repeats the third line to make a strong claim to be the most celebrated instance of repetition in English poetry."02b00 doesn't work. He doubts that this why the poet did it. He's said "It 00probably is one of the most celebrated repetitions, but not his motive." 02br
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00Could someone please help me with it? I am
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01b10"He repeats the third line to make a strong claim to be the most celebrated instance of repetition in English poetry."12b12blockquote
10The reason it doesn't work is that it is not a coherent sentence. 05002br
00 You are saying that he (the poet) does something (repeats a line) in order to claim (strongly
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0Hi, Calif Jim!02br
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00Many 01b00thanks02b00 for taking out some time for me. It's so nice you.02br
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00Yes, you got it right. I really mean that, but I am not sure of that, because the gentleman told 01b00it's not the poet's motive02b00, and you say 01b00it's not a coherent sentence02b

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