Asked by Julie
Read the excerpt from "A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
How does the comma in the first line contribute to a gloomy tone?
by showing the speaker’s wish to see Alice again
by emphasizing how the speaker thinks of Alice
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by emphasizing how the speaker thinks of Alice
The comma creates a pause that isolates "phantomwise," making the image of Alice as a ghostly, haunting presence more prominent and giving the line a mournful, eerie rhythm — it conveys how he remembers her, not a wish to see her again.
The comma creates a pause that isolates "phantomwise," making the image of Alice as a ghostly, haunting presence more prominent and giving the line a mournful, eerie rhythm — it conveys how he remembers her, not a wish to see her again.
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