English 10R-Friday, 11/4/16

Read, "Raleigh Was Right" by William Carlos Williams (search online for the poem).  Answer the questions below for Monday.

Name_________________________                              

FIRST STANZA IN “RALEIGH WAS RIGHT”:

1.      What does the opening statement in lines 1–3 suggest about the speaker’s position in relation to the country?

2.      What type of adjectives does Williams use to describe the “small violets” (line 4) and what is their effect?

3.      Return to “The Passionate Shepherd.” What adjectives does Marlowe use to describe nature? What can you infer from this comparison about how the speaker of Williams’s poem views the relationship between humans and nature?   How is Williams’s speaker’s claim about what cannot be found in the country a response to Marlowe’s vision of country life?

SECOND STANZA of “Raleigh was Right.”

4.      According to the speaker, what quality of mind is being “prais[ed]” (line 8) by the “poets” (line 9)?  What “truth” does the speaker doubt (line 16)?

THIRD STANZA of “Raleigh was Right.”

5.      How does this poem’s response to the invitation of Marlowe’s poem compare to Raleigh’s reply?

6.      According to Williams, what was Raleigh right about?