Question

Explain any one stanza of your choice from the poem'' old familiar faces''

Answer 1

Answer:

I have had playmates, I have had companions,

In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have been laughing, I have been carousing,

Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies,

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I loved a love once, fairest among women;

Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her

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Answer 2

Answer:

The basic prosodic pattern is iambic pentameter, with frequent substitution allowing for an almost conversational flexibility to the rhythm. The absence of rhyme contributes to the informal tone, while parallelism heightens the voice's urgency. Stanza six will in fact reveal that a specific listener is being addressed.

The first tercet reminds us that young people may feel nostalgia just as sharply as the old. Here, the 23-year-old poet looks beyond the horrible day to childhood and earlier youth – and an innocent happiness, irrevocably lost.

2nd stanza

A different compound verb-tense in the second stanza evokes the more recent past: "I have been laughing, I have been carousing … " With these activities, set in the present continuous aspect of the verb, the convivial young literary man comes into focus, wining and dining in a glad escape from deeper regrets. Those "bosom cronies" (the term suggests irony) perhaps share and subdue the speaker's memories, but only temporarily. They leave at the end of the evening. They're not lost permanently, but their absence plunges the speaker into his own shadows again. Tercets one and two complement each other by situating loss in different time-frames.

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