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Marshlands

ICSE · Class 8 · English Literature: Book 'Gulmohar'

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Poet and Background

  • Emily Pauline Johnson was a poet and performer.
  • She was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and his English wife.
  • Her poetry often conveys American legends and beliefs with dramatic intensity.
2

Poem Setting and Mood

  • The poem describes a marsh with wet sky, pools, lagoon, rice, lizards, goose, cranes, sedges, vapours, and twilight.
  • The setting changes from day to night.
  • The mood becomes quieter and more still as evening arrives.
3

Important Images and Lines

  • A thin wet sky that yellows at the rim creates a picture of evening light.
  • The pools are described as low, dank, and covered with moss and mould.
  • The pools glint like large cups of gold, which is a simile.
4

Poetic Devices

  • Imagery is used throughout to create a vivid marsh scene.
  • Simile appears in the comparison of pools to large cups of gold.
  • Personification appears in twilight being described like a spirit.

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The poem presents a marshThe scene moves slowly fromThe lizard shrills its tuneTwilight is described like a spiritThe pools glint through their mildews

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