Page 128 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
P. 128
“On My First Son”
by Ben Jonson, page 12
Vocabulary
exacted – demanded
lament – grieve for
1. To whom is the speaker addressing his remarks?
2. What does Jonson say is enviable about his son’s death?
3. Explain in your own words what Jonson means in the last two lines of this lyric:
“…henceforth, all his vows be such,/As what he loves may never like too much.”
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