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Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
作者Author  /  Thomas  Gray  湯馬士 .格雷

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    1. Look in your handbook and find out what an "ode" is. What are the characteristics of an ode? How many of those characteristics do you see in this poem?
    2. This ode tells a story about a cat named Selima. What images are associated with Selima (e.g. Greek goddess, jewelry) , and the vase (e.g. lake)?  And why?  What happens to Selima? Why does it happen?
    3. Though the poem is about a female cat and the poem says "What female heart can gold despise?" Doesn't the poem also have a message for men?
    4. This poem teaches and instructs us with a moral. What is that moral?
 
   
 
   
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