Eulalie edgar allan poe

I dwelt alone

In a world of moan

And my soul was a stagnant tide,

Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride –

Till the yellow-haired Eulalie became my blushing bride.

Ah, less – less bright

The stars of night

Than the eyes of the radiant girl!

And never a flake

That the vapor can make

With the moon-tints of purple and pearl

Can vie with the modest Eulalie’s most unregarded curl.

Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie’s most humble and careless curl.

Now doubt, now pain

Come never again

For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,

And all day long

Shines, bright and strong,

Astarte within the sky,

While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye,

While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye.

· 1. What phonemes and combinations of phonemes create the musicality of the poem?

· 2. How does the author use repetitions?

· 3. Does the sound-instrumenting of the poem correspond to its subject-matter and emotional colouring?

· 4. Find examples of pair assonance in the poem. What is its expressive value?

· 5. What can you say of the rhyme and rhythm of the poem? What about the epithets bearing the contextual meaning f beauty, tenderness, purity?

ANALYZE THE GIVEN SENTENCES ACCORDING TO THE STYLISTIC MEANS AND THEIR ORIGINALITY, EXPRESSIVENESS AND SO ON

I

1. And the skirts! What a sight were those skirts! They were nothing but vast decorations; on the summit of each was stuck the upper half of a princess.

2. They walked alone, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.

3. He smelled the ever-beautiful smell of coffee imprisoned in the can.

4. She and the kids have filled his sister’s house and their welcome is wearing thinner and thinner.

5. She hoped that Sally would laugh art this, and she did, and in a sudden mutual gush, they cashed into the silver of laughter all the sad secrets they could finds in their pockets.

II.

1. The man looked rather an old fifty-five, for he was already going grey.

2. Some remarkable pictures in this room, gentlemen. A Holbein, two Van Dycks and if I am not mistaken, a Velasques. I am interested in pictures.

3. He made his way through the perfume and conversation.

4. I crossed a high bridge and negotiated a no man’s land and came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack.

5. For several days he took an hour after his work to make inquiry tasking with him examples of his pen and ink.

III.

1. There are two things I look for in a man. A sympathetic character and full lips.

2. My mother was wearing her best grey dress and gold brooch and a faint pink flush under each cheek bone.

3. “Someone at the door,” he said blinking. “Some four, I should say by the sound.” said Fili.

4. ‘What do you mean?’ Brody said. He thought to himself, giver her what? A kiss? A box of chocolates? A punch in the nose? ‘A present. It’s nothing, really.’

5. When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ”His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

6. Most women up London nowadays seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners and French novels.

7. Little John was born with a silver spoon in his mouth which was rather curly and large.

IV

1. “Well, it’s shaping up into a lovely evening, isn’t it?” “Great, “he said”And if I may say so, you’re doing everything to make it harder, you little sweet.”

2. Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war.

3. She’s a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her face since Coolidge’s second term, I’ll eat my spare tire, rim and all.

4. With all the expressiveness of a stone Welsh stared at him another twenty seconds apparently hoping to see him gag.

5. Several months ago a magazine named ‘Playboy’ which concentrates editorially on girls, books, art, girls, music, fashion, girls and girls published an article about old-time science fiction.

VI

1. Don’t ask me,” said Mr. Owl Eyes washing his hands of the whole matter.

2. I keep six honest serving men

(They taught me all I know)

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.

3. To attend major sport event most parents have arrived. A Colonel Sidebotham was standing next to Prendergast, firmly holding the tape with “FINISH”. ”Capital,” said Prendergast. /..../”I can see you are a fine judge of the race, Sir. So was I once. So was Grimes. A capital fellow, Grimes; don’t you agree, Colonel Slidebottom. I wish you’d stop pulling at my arm, Pennyfeather. Colonel Shybottom and I are just having a most interesting conversation.

3. The next speaker was a tall gloomy man, Sir Something Somebody.

4. Now let me introduce you – that’s a Mr.What’s-his-name, you remember him, don’t you?

VI

1.He acknowledged an early-afternoon customer with a be-with-you-in-a-minute nod.

2. The children were very brown and filthily dirty.

3. The children were very brown and filthily dirty.

4. She was a faded white rabbit of a woman.

5. Liza Hamilton was a very different kettle of Irish. Her head was small and round and it held small and round convictions.

6. He loved the afterswim salt-and-sunshine smell of her hair.

VII

1. The girls were dressed to kill.

2. Her family is the aunt about a thousand years old.

3. She was the sparrow of a woman.

4. He smiled back, breathing a memory of gin at me.

5. He didn’t appear like the same man; then he was all milk and honey – now she was all starch and vinegar.

VIII

1. Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield are Good Bad Boys of American Literature.

2. There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books.

3. It was an open secret that Ray had been robbing his father-in-law.

4. Heaven must be the hell of a place. Nothing but repentant sinners up there.

IX

1. I wake up and I am alone and I walk round Warley and I am alone; and I talk with people and I’m alone and I look at his face and it’s dead.

2. Then there was something between them. There was. There was.

3. Obviously – this is a streptococcal infection. Obviously.

4. Living is the art of loving.

Loving is the art of caring.

Caring is the art of sharing.

Sharing is the art of living.

5. When he blinks, a parrot-like look appears, the look of some heavily blinking tropical bird.

6. On her father’s being groundlessly suspected, she felt sure. Sure. Sure.

X

1. She was crazy about you. In the beginning.

2. Women are not made for attack. Wait they must.

3. Then she said:”You think it’s so? She was mixed up in this lousy business?”

4. There was a door led to the kitchen.

5. FOR LIGHT ARTICLES ONLY.

6. “Well, they’ll get a chance now to show – (Hastily) – “I don’t mean – But let’s forget that.”

7. Bella soaped her face, and rubbed her face, and rubbed her hands, and soaped her hands.

8. He was a very deliberate, careful guy and we trust each other completely. With a few reservations.

XI

1. Don’t use big words. They mean so little.

2. Mrs. Nork had a large home and a small husband.

3. Like a well, like a wall, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside.

4. For that one instant there was no one else in the room, in the house, in the world, besides themselves.

5. That was appalling – and soon forgotten.

XII

1.As gay as a lark –as sick as a dog. As steady as time – uncertain as weather. As white as a lily – as black as coal.

2. Children! Breakfast is as good as any other meal and I won’t have you gobbling like wolves.

3. You’re like the East, Finny. One loves it at first sight or not at all and one never knows it any better.

4. He felt like an old book: spine defective, covers dull, slight foxing, fly missing, rather shaken copy.

5. She has always been as live as a bird.

6. You could have knocked me down with a feather when he said all these things to me. I felt just like Balaam when his ass broke into light conversation.

7. Indian summer resembles a woman, ripe hotly passionate.

XIII

1. Her face was not unhandsome.

2. “No, I’ve had a profession and then a firm to cherish.” said Ravenstreet not without bitterness.

3. The idea was not totally erroneous. The thought did not displease me.

4. He would make some money and then he would come back and marry his dream from Blackwood.

5. She was still fat after childbirth; the destroyer of her figure sat at the head of the table.

XIV

1. In Paris there must have been a lot of women not unlike Mrs. Jesmond, beautiful women, clever women, cultured women, exquisite, long-necked, sweet-smelling, downy rats.

2. We sat down at the table. The jaws got to work around the table.

3. Babbitt stopped smoking at least once a month. He did everything in fact except stop smoking.

4. I’m interested in any number of things, enthusiastic about nothing. Everything is significant and nothing is finally important.

5. The cigarette tastes rough, a noseful of straw. He puts it out. Never again.

6. I have made him my executor. Nominated, constituted and appointed him. In my will.

7. He came to us, you see, about three months ago. A skilled and experienced waiter. Has given complete satisfaction. He has been in England about five years.

8. I looked at him. I know I smiled. His face looked as though it were plunging into water. I couldn’t touch him. I smiled again and my hands got wet on the telephone and then for the moment I couldn’t see him at all and I shook my head and my face was wet and I said, “I’m glad. I’m glad. Don’t worry, I’m glad.”

9. What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs,

And stare as long as sheep and cows.

No time to see when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see in broad day light

Streams full of stars like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

STYLE IN APHORISMS

1. The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. F. H. Bradley.

2. An aphorism is something which spares the writer an essay by way of commentary, but in consequence is deeply shocking to the reader. Peter Altenberg

3.Feed a cold and starve a fever.

4. Acting in English...I'm like a blind man. When you can't see, you develop other senses. In one sense I am blind, but other faculties develop by way of compensation: the sense of hearing, of morbid curiosity, of tolerance. These are the ways you communicate if you don't speak the language. Gérard Depardieu

5. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. Marlon Brando

6. As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite. William Shakespeare

7. He had the metabolism of a falcon. He burnt ideas so quickly...He'd start walking up and down, smoking his cigar and, in a minute, he'd be changing it into another idea...in the end he was telling a different story and possible film. Fernando Rey

8. His ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open

9. I appreciate teamwork. I don't like a one-man show. I'm an interpreter, a sort of tool—I don't mean an object. The right tool is quite essential. Try pounding a nail in with a screwdriver. Attributed to Gérard Depardieu

10. Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe

11. In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score. Ralph Richardson,British actor.

12. That's the way with these directors, they're always biting the hand that lays the golden egg. Samuel Goldwyn, U.S. film producer

13. Good humor is the seasoning of truth. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

14. See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.