Page 194 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“Requiem”
by Robert Loius Stevenson, pages 74-75
Vocabulary
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1. Read the introduction to this writer’s life. What is significant about this particular poem?
2. What does the repetition of “glad” and “I” suggest the tone of the poem to be?
3. As the note that precedes the poem explains, Stevenson was an avid world-traveler. What
lines of the poem suggest his worldliness?
4. The poem’s final line contains three words that begin with a hard ‘h’ sound: “hunter,”
“home,” and “hill.” What is the term used to describe such repetition?
5. What kind of feeling does this poem leave you with after you have read it?
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