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“I grow old. … I grow old …             I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.             Shall I part my hair behind?  Do I dare to eat a peach?              I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.              I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.             I do not think that they will sing to me.   I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”

interior monologue (briefly explain and associate it with a work and author we read)

Guido da Montefeltro

“The horror! The horror!”

“Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees;”

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

“A terrible beauty is born.”

   “ ‘To the very end,’ I said shakily. ‘I heard his very last words . . . .’ I stopped in a fright.     ” ‘Repeat them,’ she murmured in a hear-broken tone. ‘I want–I want–something–something–to–to live with.’    “I was on the point of crying at her, ‘Don’t you hear them?’ The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. ‘The horror! The horror!d’    “‘His last word–to live with,’ she insisted. ‘Don’t you understand I loved him–I loved him–I loved him!’    “I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.    ” ‘The last word he pronounced was–your name.’ ” 

“Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori” (translate and explain the irony of this statement as it relates to the poem which uses the statement, and name the author)