This word means to restore friendly relations between or to coexist in harmony.
What is reconciling?
100
This is the type of figurative language that is used throughout the whole poem and it describes something by painting a picture of it in your head.
What is imagery?
100
This phrase describes a bird singing and it gives the feeling that it's voice was pleasant.
What is "A thrush sings?"
100
The speaker's _____ is happy that it's spring, but his normal everyday life is sad and depressing.
What is attitude?
200
This word means impressive or amazing.
What is astonishing?
200
This phrase is a simile that describes how the author felt when he was young.
What is "Feels like a child?"
200
This phrase describes what houses may have looked like and how they might be compared to a human. It means that the roof was slanted in a way that might make the house look a certain way.
What is "foreheads of houses?"
200
Spring is pleasant time of year that it coming up shortly.
What is meaning of title?
300
A word that means a plant or shrub.
What is Laurel?
300
This describes the types of houses that were build in the time and place that this poem was written. This phrase is personification, because it describes the houses as having foreheads.
What is "foreheads of houses?"
300
This phrase shows a depressing feeling about a place where flowers grow and there is hardly nothing in it.
What is "deep bare garden?"
300
The _____ throughout the poem is that there is always something to look forward to.
What is the theme?
400
Means not interesting.
What is boredom?
400
This phrase shows personification, because it is describing serene to doing something that a human would do.
What is "bathes the serene?"
400
These two words show that the poet is happy about the upcoming season. This is also an example of alliteration.
What is "spring soon?"
400
After the 9th line the author starts to describe how happy he feels when it's spring, but at the beginning of the poem he was talking about what it was like that night.
What is shift?
500
The word that means calm and peaceful.
What is serene?
500
These two phrases are an example of repatition, because it repeats the same phrase twice. It describes how the author feels about the new season.
What is "It will be spring soon?"
500
This phrase shows a happy feeling and it is describing what the voice of the bird may have sounded like.