How does the Duke describe the piece? Who is Frà Pandolf (line 3)? What words and phrases in lines 3–4 indicate who he is? Why might the Duke mention Frà Pandolf in line 3? (“Will please you sit and look at her?”) and answer the following Reread line 5 ’t questions… To whom is the Duke speaking? Who else speaks in the first five lines of the poem? Describe the Duke’s tone toward the listener in line 5. What demonstrate this tone? Read lines 5–8 (from said / Pandolf’ by design, for never read” to depth and “I ‘Frà “The passion of its earnest glance”) and answer the following questions… What is pictured countenance” in line 7? “that Explain what the stranger in lines 6–7: never read / Strangers like you that “read[s]” “for pictured countenance.” What might read mean here? To what does refer in line 8? “its”
How does the Duke describe the piece? Who is Frà Pandolf (line 3)? What words and phrases in lines 3–4 indicate who he is? Why might the Duke mention Frà Pandolf in line 3? Reread line 5 (“Will ’t please you sit and look at her?”) and answer the following questions… To whom is the Duke speaking? Who else speaks in the first five lines of the poem? Describe the Duke’s tone toward the listener in line 5. What demonstrate this tone? Read lines 5–8 (from “I said / ‘Frà Pandolf’ by design, for never read” to “The depth and passion of its earnest glance”) and answer the following questions… What is “that pictured countenance” in line 7? Explain what the stranger “read[s]” in lines 6–7: “for never read / Strangers like you that pictured countenance.” What might read mean here? To what does “its” refer in line 8?
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