Unit 5: Part 1 Vocabulary & Literary Terms

Eternal process moving on,
From state to state the spirit walks;
And these are but the shattered stalks,
Or ruined chrysalis of one.

What art thou then? I cannot guess;
But though I seem in star and flower
To feel thee some diffusive power,
I do not therefore love thee less.

Far off thou art, but ever nigh;
I have thee still, and I rejoice;
I prosper, circled with thy voice;
I shall not lose thee though I die.

In the stormy east wind straining,
The pale yellow woods were waning

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labor, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows

I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance
The depth and passion of its earnest glance

The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her

I repeat,
The Count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no one just pretense
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed

I repeat,
The Count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no one just pretense
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed

While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.

The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite
And did its worst to vex the lake

Robert Browning perfected the dramatic monologue, in which a single character delivers a speech.

In an analogy, the relationship between two words is explained by comparing it to the relationship between two other words.