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  1. Apr 2016
    1. Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

      This turn means that his bad spirit actually does defeat his good spirit and he cannot change that. The poem led you to believe that maybe his good spirit could out-fight the bad one and then the turn comes and you realize that is not true.

    2. Tempteth

      Tempteth is an archaic third-person singular if tempt.

    3. Wooing

      Woo means to seek the favor, support, or custom of.

    4. Suspect I may, but not directly tell;

      The stressed syllables are spect, may, not, ect, and tell. The unstressed syllables are Sus, I, but, dir, and ly.

    5. I guess one angel in another's hell:

      The stressed syllables in this line are guess, ang, in, oth, and hell. The unstressed syllables in this line are I, one, el, an, and er's.

    6. The better angel is a man right fair,

      The stressed syllables in this line are bet, ang, is, man, and fair. The unstressed syllables in this line are the, ter, el, a, and right.

    7. despair,

      The rhyme scheme for this poem is: despair (a) and fair (a), still (b) and ill (b), evil (c) and devil (c), side (d) and pride (d), fiend (e) and friend (e), tell (f) and hell (f), doubt (g) and out (g)

    1. Now Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American,

      I honestly don't believe that Shakespeare has had this much of an affect on America. He may be a very popular author and poet, but I personally do not see that he made this much of an impact.

    2. as the greatest playwright who ever lived is now as much an American as a British phenomenon,

      I believe that if he was really born in Britain, he is still British. He can still be considered an American poet because that is where his poetry became famous, but he is still originally British. However, I do agree that he can be considered an American poet based on how famous his work is here.