LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Lullaby
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The Shield Of Achilles
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The Waste Land
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Sailing to Byzantium
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thetis, the mother is a beautiful nymph in the classic tale now seeks “vines and olive trees, marble well-governed cities and ships upon untamed seas”, symbols of peace and prosperity.
Detailed explanation-2: -title of THE collection of poems The Shield of Achilles, published in 1955. It was awarded the National Book Award in 1956. Auden employs an alternating pattern of rhyme royal (ABABBCC) and ballad format (ABCBDEFE) respectively in the verse.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem that provides the title to the collection, ‘The Shield of Achilles’, is a powerful rejection of war-related violence. In the poem, Auden questions the validity of traditional notions of honour and fair war in an age in which war has become mechanised and impersonal.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hence, it is in free verse. However, there are some instances where one can find the use of rhyming. It is important to focus specifically on the structure of the stanzas. The stanzas containing short lines depict what Thetis wished to see on the shield of her son.