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Loneliness CFA

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8 Nsɛmmisa

Please answer the following questions over the poem, Loneliness, by Fanny Howe.

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1.

When reading the title of the poem, what can you infer will be the tone or mood?

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2.

In the first stanza, Howe refers to loneliness as "companion" and "it". What is the author acheiveing by personifying loneliness?

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3.

After reading the first and second stanza, compare and contrast them. Include how the author depicts loneliness in the first stanza and the second. Hint: Pay attention to lines 7-11 and 16-20!

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4.

Why does Howe include the following simile in her poem? "it will hang near your hand like a habit".

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5.

Towards the end of the poem Howe describes loneliness and shame as being one. Knowing that shame is when someone feels humiliated or foolish why do you think she added this feeling at the end?

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State the poem’s central idea or theme in a singular sentence.

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7.

Fanny Howe put this poem in a book of poems she wrote titled, Second Childhood. What connection can you make with a poem about loneliness to chidlhood?

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8.

Who is the audience of the poem?