UNSEEN POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight's end
When I'd turn about
Or I'd fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So, I'm pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart'd been fleeing
From cupid's poised arrow
In the poem, cupid is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent I their fears,
And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,
Not paying me a welcome...
The speaker is
The speaker is addressing
The speech is in reaction to
So should the murdered look, and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty;
Yes you the murdered look so bright in clear
As yonder, Venus in her, glimmering sphere
The speaker's experience is that
