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“Upon Julia’s Clothes”
by Robert Herrick, page 13
Vocabulary
liquefaction – to be turned into liquid
1. What is the tone of the first stanza? Explain your answer.
2. What does the “my” in the poem’s first line reveal about the speaker?
3. What is ironic about the poem’s concluding line?
4. What effect, if any, do the long vowel sounds in the poem’s second line, “sweetly flows,”
have on the poem’s meaning?
5. Why do you think Herrick repeats “then” in the second line of the poem?
6. What does the author mean by “the liquefaction of her clothes?”
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