6 Matching Annotations
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, one of the reasons that the New York Public Library had toclose its public catalog was that the public was destroying it. TheHetty Green cards disappeared. Someone calling himself Cosmoswas periodically making o with all the cards for Mein Kampf. Cardsfor two Dante manuscripts were stolen: not the manuscripts, thecards for the manuscripts.
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had a general suspicion of words used by poets, as expressed in a letterwritten in 1901 discussing the use of voidee-cup, a cup of wine with spicestaken before retiring to rest or at the departure of guests, in a poem by DanteGabriel Rossetti. Murray did not know the meaning of the word:
correctly and the notes could easily be spotted as counterfeit, but that only went so far.
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- Mar 2018
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Each glowworm winks her spark, Let us get home before the night grows dark:
In this specific line, I see simile such as "spark" and "dark" as way of compare something glimmer and something gloomy.
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With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and finger tips.
In this one Rossetti chose simile like "lips" and "tips".
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“Nay, hush,” said Laura: “Nay, hush, my sister:
Rossetti use rhythm. For example, Nay, hush and she repeat it twice in this line and other as way for the reader to pay attention to the way Christina Rossetti play with words to create rhythm through her poem.
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Yet my mouth waters still; To-morrow night I will Buy more;” and kiss’d her:
This show similes for example, Rossetti used still and will as a way to show she was still thirsty and want more as a sign of glad or happy which lead a surprise wait for her tomorrow.
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