The Best thing in the World

What does 'impearled' mean?

• To adorn with pearls.

• Combining characteristics of more than one thing.

• Spiritual, rather than physical

What, in the poem has been 'impearled' and with what?

• A rose with dew.

• A rabbit with horns.

• The grass with sun.

What is another name for a 'south-wind'?

• Staccato

• Sirocco

• Spiagga

What form does this poem take?

• Fragment

• Sonnet

• Divertimento

What is a divertimento?

• A pastoral or lyrical poem of nineteen lines, with only two rhymes throughout, and some lines repeated.

• A poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five,

• A musical composition: it has no fixed form

What is hypophora?

• When a writer raises a question and then immediately answers it.

• The presence of two or more expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work.

• The repetition of words at the end of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.

Which of these is an example of hypophora in the poem?

• June-Rose, May-dew, South-wind

• What's the best thing in the world? Something out of it, I think.

• Love when so you're loved again.

What are kennings?

• The repetition of words at the end of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.

• The presence of two or more expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work.

• A figure of speech in which two words are combined in order to form a poetic expression that refers to a person or a thing.

Which of these are examples of kennings in the poem?

• Love, when, so you're loved again.

• June-rose/ May-dew/ south-wind

• Truth, not cruel to a friend.

What technique is employed here: 'Memory that gives no pain;/ Love when so you're loved again.'

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Heteroglossia