—Robert Browning
(By permission of the owner of the copyright and Smith, Elder & Co.)
Preparatory.—Narrate briefly the events of the poem and describe (a) the council, (b) the scene after the ships are safely anchored.
How does this poem illustrate the truth that the highest motive in life is duty? From this standpoint compare Hervé Riel with Sir Richard Grenville in Tennyson's The Revenge.
Give other examples to show that true nobility does not depend on such externals as rank and position.
2. woe to France. How does the voice indicate that this phrase is parenthetical?
4. What is the subject of PURSUE? Its object? How does the reader make the meaning clear?
3-5. What is the Shading?
8 and 14. Supply the ellipsis in each case. How is the reading affected by an ellipsis? (Introduction, p. [10].)
12-14. What is the Stress? (Introduction, pp. [27] and [28].)