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LAND OF THE SOUTH (PAGE 210)

This is a selection from a longer poem, entitled The Day of Freedom." Helvyn: Switzerland. Tempe: a valley in Thessaly famous for its attractiveness.

QUESTIONS, i. What aspects of the South are presented? 2. What

is the basis of the poet s devotion to the South? 3. To what extent will he go to show his devotion?

THE MOCKING BIRD (PAGE 211)

Mime: mimic. Petrarch: an Italian poet of the fourteenth cen tury noted as a writer of sonnets. Laura: the woman Petrarch loved and addressed in his sonnets. Anacreon: a Greek lyric poet. Trou badour: one of a school of poets which flourished in the southern part of France in the Middle Ages.

QUESTIONS, i. To whom is the poet speaking? 2. What literary

reminiscences are used in the description of the mocking bird? 3. Which of these is the most pleasing, and why? 4. Compare this tribute to the mocking bird with other poems on the same subject found in this volume.

HENRY ROOTES JACKSON

THE RED OLD HILLS OF GEORGIA (PAGE 213)

QUESTIONS, i. What aspects of Georgia scenery are referred to?

2. What characteristics of Southerners are mentioned? 3. Is it typical of the Southern people that they are home lovers? 4. Does this poem well express such a feeling?

MY WIFE AND CHILD (PAGE 215)

By a curious confusion this poem came to be attributed to General T. J. (" Stonewall") Jackson and is supposed to have been written by him during the Civil War. It was, however, written in 1846 by Henry Rootes Jackson while in the Mexican campaign.

QUESTIONS, i. Note the picture of the camp in the first stanza.

2. What glimpses of home life are given in the subsequent stanzas? 3. What prayer does the poet make for his wife and child?