William Blake (1757-1827)and Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Blake's "The Little Black Boy"(1789)
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Explain the imagery of black and white employed in this poem.
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Explain the imagery of heat and light employed in this poem.
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Explain the significance of the mother in the poem.
Southey's Poems Concerning the Slave Trade (1798)
244:
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Why did the Pantisocracy plan fall through?
245:
Sonnet 3:
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Explain the simile employed in lines 4-5.
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What is the "blood-sweetened beverage" (10)?
Sonnet 4:
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Explain the simile employed in lines 1-2.
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Is it significant that both the slave and his lover are described as
weeping? Explain.
Sonnet 5:
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Explain the final two lines.
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What is the relationship between consolation and justice?
Other Discussion Questions:
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Sonnet 6:
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Explain: "New tormentors live to drink their parent blood" (4).
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What is the significance of the use of the quote from Macbeth
that closes the poem?