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Ruins of a Great House
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Ruins of a Great House

Selected Poem for Discussion
1. formal aspect--uneven rhyme scheme--as a reflection of the state of the ruins
ruins--literally means the plantation house of the slave master; metaphorically, England, the "mother country"
2. physical movement of the narrator--looking at the house and around the house (to get an overview)
3. mental movement (ex) the last stanza depicts a movement from rage to humanistic sympathy-- allusion to John Donne--"No man is an island entirely of itself, every man is piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
--"Meditation XVII"
   
 
   
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