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Miniver Cheevy

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  • Definition: Camelot
  • Definition: "he would have sinned incessantly"
  • Definition: Thebes
  • What are "the days of old"?
  • Figurative device: "He mourned Romance, now out on the town"
  • Definition: labours
  • Why was Miniver "born too late"?
  • Definition: lean
  • What device is this: "when swords were bright and steeds were prancing"
  • Rhyme scheme of the poem
  • Definition: albeit
  • Explain "Miniver cursed the commonplace"
  • Explain the "ripe renown"
  • Definition: scorn
  • Definition: mourn
  • Definition: vagrant
  • Who are the Medici and why did Miniver want to be one?
  • Definition: sigh
  • Why did he "eye a khakhi suit with loathing"? What does the khakhi suit represent?
  • Theme of the poem
  • Why are Romance and Art given capital letters?
  • Explain: "Miniver scorned the gold he sought, but sore annoyed was he without it"
  • Explain: "the medieval grace of iron clothing"
  • What does it mean "made many a name so fragrant"?
  • Definition: wept
  • Why did he "cough[ed] and called it fate"?
  • Definition: bold
  • Definition: assailed
  • Who was Priam and why are his neighbours important?
  • Why is this repeated: "Miniver thought and thought and thought and thought about it"
  • Structure of the poem
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