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Gowher Ahmad Naik, Lovely Professional University Unit 22: Explanation of Unseen Passages in Verse

Unit 22: Explanation of Unseen Passages in Verse Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

22.1 Example
22.2 Summary
22.3 Keywords
22.4 Review Questions

22.5 Further Readings
Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Explain about the unseen passages
• Answer the questions given, based on unseen passage

• Write the unseen passages

Introduction

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
• The speaker longs for a drink of wine or some other spirit that has been kept cool deep
in the earth. “Vintage” wine is made from grapes from the same harvest, and people
often refer to a particular year at a winery as a “vintage.”
• We have no explanation at this point for his sudden desire to get his drink on. He wants
wine to just start bubbling up out of the ground, as if you could stick a tap right into
the soil and let the good times flow.

22.1 Example

• Good wine needs to be kept cool, which is why people often store it in their cellars.
According to poet, the earth is like a giant wine cellar.

Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
• Well, that makes sense. If you drink wine out of the earth, it’s no surprise that it might
taste like flowers (“Flora”) and plants (“country green”).
• People sometimes jokingly say they want to “squeeze every last drop” out of the day,
but the speaker seems to mean it literally.
• Not only does the earth’s wine taste like flowers, but it also tastes like dancing, song,
and happiness (“sunburnt mirth”). Specifically, he is thinking of “Provencal,” a region

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