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Show SEVENTH AIM: VALUES 9. A thrill 103 through all the Tartar squadrons ran 10. Of pride and hope for Sohrab, whom they loved. 11. But as a troop of peddlers from Cabool 12. Cross underneath the Indian Caucasus, 13. The vast sky-neighboring mountain of milk snow; 14. Crossing so high, that, as' they mount, they pass 15. Long flocks of traveling birds dead in the snow, 16. Choked by the air, and scarce can they themselves 17. Slake their parch'd throats with sugar'd mulberries- 18. In single file they move and stop their breath; 19. For fear they should dislodge the o'er hanging snows- 20. So the pale Persians held their breath with fear. In our sixth chapter we have studied the problem of how to hold ideas together, or in other words, how to paragraph orally. ideas which After alike have been built up, and the main idea has been established and held out easily and prominently for the hearer are to get, the next problem that comes is the method of differentiating heroic, tragic, classic at mosphere which envelops the entire poem. But we find that, held in this atmosphere, there are variations arising from the changes in motive, feeling or thought. Line 1, for instance, is an address given in the character of the great warrior, Peran-Wisa, and with suf ficient force to reach the opposing Persian army. The motive changes in lines 2, 3, and 4 where the great commander states the proposition that he has called the armies together to hear. Lines 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 express the extreme joy and enthusiasm which the Tartar troops manifest at the message from Peran-Wisa, while, in antithesis, lines 11, 12, l3, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 depict It is the awful fear of the Persians in regard to the outcome. therefore necessary to read the four phrases so that they will mean precisely what they say: the first, the address, the second, the pur pose of the commander, third, the thrilling joy, the fourth, the chilling fear. The color in "our champion Sohrab" should be that of true pride; in dew glistens, thrill, pride and hope, that of the joy of the paragraph; while vast sky-neighboring mountains of milk these paragraphs. This extract is in the |
