Read the poem bolow carefully and then follow the instructions, Spring
1 Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -
2 When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
3 Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
4 Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
5 The ear. It strikes like lightnings to hear him sing:
6 The glassy pear tree leaves and blooms, they brush
7 The descending blue; that blus is all in a rush
B With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling,
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What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. -Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O mald's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Question 2
Read the poem above carefully and then answer the set questions
1. What type of poem is 'Spring'?
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Refer to line 1('Nothing is so Beautiful as Spring-')?
Explain what the function of the dash is.
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Refer to line 3 ('Thrush's eggs look...heavens and thrush'
(a) Identify the figure of speech used in this line.
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