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Tag: Anne Finch

A Nocturnal Reverie – Analysis

Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 by JL Admin

Modern readers of Anne Finch’s work take a particular interest in ‘‘A Nocturnal Reverie’’ with regard to its categorization. With the benefit of significant historical and literary hindsight, some scholars regard the poem as an example of the Augustan literature that was so popular in England at the time the poem was written (1713). But…

A Nocturnal Reverie – Summary

Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 by JL Admin

‘‘A Nocturnal Reverie’’ is a fifty-line poem describing an inviting nighttime scene and the speaker’s disappointment when dawn brings it to an end, forcing her back to the real world. It is written in iambic pentameter, a meter that consists of five feet (or units), each containing an unstressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable….

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