Vocab
What does ¨treading¨ mean in the context of this poem?
What is the setting of this poem?
What is the speaker's brain?
Is the content of this poem literal or metaphorical?
What is metaphorical.
In line 9 ¨And then I heard them lift a Box¨ what is ¨Box¨ referring to?
What is a coffin?
What is the theme of this poem? (multiple answers will be accepted)
What is Death/Insanity/Madness/Uncertainty/Despair?
What is the most obvious way to recognize personification in this text?
What does ¨toll¨ mean in line 12?
What is the sound of a bell ringing?
What could be meant by this line? "And then a Plank in Reason, broke"
A part of the speaker's psyche has broken.
There are two examples of repetition in this poem. Find both of them.
What is ¨A Service¨ referring to in line 6?
What is a funeral service?
What type of stanza is used in this poem?
(Hint: Count the number of lines)
What is a quatrain?
The rhyming of "fro" and "through" are an example of what type of rhyme?
What is Slant Rhyme?
What is meant by "Space" in line 12?
What is all of the environment around the speaker?
What is the meaning of the last line of the poem? "And Finished knowing - then -"
The speaker is about to share unrevealed information about death/what comes after death when the poem ends.
Find an example of enjambment in the poem.
What are lines 7 and 8?
Kept beating – beating – till I thought
My mind was going numb –