اللغة الإنجليزية فصل ثاني

Literature spot B         

Student’s Book, page 86

A Green Cornfield
Christina Rossetti

The poet describes how content she feels as she walks through a cornfield. As she walks along, she sees a skylark flying in the sky. It doesn't sing as it flies lower. Below it, butterflies move quickly in the cornfield. The poet knows that the skylark's nest is hidden in the cornfield. She imagines that its companion is also listening somewhere in the cornfield.

•  The word speck in the first stanza indicates something "small". 
• The poet saw the bird one sunny morning.
• The bird mentioned in the first stanza is a skylark. 
•  The thing that the poet saw and heard in one of the mornings is a skylark singing. 
•   The colour of the Earth as mentioned in the first stanza is green
•  The colour of the sky mentioned in the first stanza is blue.
•   The bird was singing above the corn. 
•  The rhetorical device mentioned in "singing speck" is alliteration.
•  The rhyme scheme is (abab).​​​
•  The skylark sings when it flies high.
•  The skylark doesn't sing when it flies down. It becomes silent.
•  The word accord means "in harmony" or "in agreement".
•  ''Silent sank'' and "Singing skylark soared" are two examples of alliteration.
•   The butterflies dance in gay accord.
•  The words ''in gay accord'' mean that the butterflies were dancing happily.
•  What shows that butterflies did not sit quietly is "White butterflies danced on the wing."
•  The word tender suggests something fresh and young.
• The lines that mean the skylark's nest is invisible (not visible / hidden) in the cornfield are

        "I knew he had a nest unseen."   

        "Somewhere among the million stalks"

• The female skylark lays eggs in the nest.
•  Stalk is the long, upright part of the plant that supports the leaves.
•  The poet doesn't know where the skylark nest is.
•  The nest of the skylark is "Somewhere among the million stalks"
• The poet uses many examples of "alliteration", such as:

         listening long 

         listened longer 

• The effect that the poet is trying to achieve with the technique of alliteration is adding to the rhythm of the poem.
• Apart from the poet, there is a reference to another listener - female skylark. 
• The lines that mean that the poet leaves the cornfields before the skylark has stopped singing are :

             "Perhaps his mate sat listening long"

             "And listened longer than I did"

•  The poet stopped in the cornfield to hear the skylark's song. 
• The underlined word swift means fast.
• The two listeners to the skylark are the poet and the female skylark (his mate).

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